The use of gene-editing techniques in breeding improved ornamentals

The use of gene-editing techniques in breeding improved ornamentalsThe aim of ornamental plant breeding is developing novel cultivars with new and improved traits. Innovation in this field has increased with the advent of precise genome editing. These techniques use nucleases to guide site directed mutagenesis e. g. the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats nuclease associated systems (CRISPR). CRISPR has accelerated the pace of studies, specifically due to its relative simplicity. An advantage is

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