2018 ASHS Annual Conference
Genes and Genetic Interactions That Modulate Flowering and Yield in Tomato: How Gene Editing Technologies Are Facilitating the Translation of These Fundamental Discoveries to Improve Crop Productivity
Genes and Genetic Interactions That Modulate Flowering and Yield in Tomato: How Gene Editing Technologies Are Facilitating the Translation of These Fundamental Discoveries to Improve Crop Productivity
Friday, August 3, 2018: 1:45 PM
Jefferson East (Washington Hilton)
With the recent widespread deployment of genome editing technology in plants, we have entered an era of great excitement and enormous opportunity for plant breeding. Based on knowledge gained on the power of exploiting CRISPR-Cas9 for improving tomato, I will present what is already possible and will likely become feasible in the coming decade of crop improvement. This includes our work on integrating discoveries in basic plant development with agriculture to customize and optimize major productivity traits, and a powerful approach that we have developed to engineer and fine-tune quantitative trait variation.