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Engineering herbicide-resistant sorghum with CRISPR/Cas9-mediated adenine base editing.

PubMed · 2026-05-18

Scientists used a precise gene-editing tool to make sorghum resistant to herbicides, producing plants that look and grow normally but can survive weed-killing chemicals — without leaving behind any foreign DNA.

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Adenine base editing of the SbALS gene conferred strong herbicide resistance in sorghum

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Edited plants were transgene-free, containing no foreign DNA insertions

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No significant differences in agronomic traits (growth, yield characteristics) were observed between edited and unedited plants

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