New tool enables faster, more cost-effective genome editing of traits to improve agriculture sustainability

With the goal of reducing the time and cost it takes to bring an improved crop to the marketplace to improve agriculture sustainability, research conducted in the laboratory of Keith Slotkin, Ph.D., and his colleagues in the Plant Transformation Facility at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, was recently published in the journal Nature. The publication "Transposase-assisted target site integration for efficient plant genome engineering" focuses on technology called TATSI (Transposase-Assisted Target Site Integration), which uses transposable elements to integrate custom DNA into specific sites in plant genomes.