Tomato plants: the repair of the mutation leads to earlier fruit yield. (IMAGE)

University of Lausanne

Tomato plants: the repair of the mutation leads to earlier fruit yield.

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Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in with the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right). The repair of the mutation leads to earlier fruit yield. Scale: 7.5 cm.

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Anna Glaus, UNIL

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