Precision Genome Engineering and Agriculture: Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges

As Caixia Gao and Dan Voytas explain, new techniques make it possible to precisely edit plant genomic DNA, providing opportunities to create crop varieties that will help meet the challenges facing agriculture, including an expanding world population and environmental change.

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