March 20, 2025
Gene editing is a technology at a stage that it is being used to generate disease resistant crops is the main message from the Workshop on 15.10.2024 discussing the contribution of gene editing to improve disease and pest resistance and provide solutions for sustainable agricultural production and reduction of pesticide use.
Main recommendations from the workshop are:
- Plant genome editing requires further improvements of the technology.
- Efficient virus-based gene editing needs to be established for a variety of crop species.
- Plant gene targets for gene editing must be identified at larger scale.
- The function of target genes-for-editing must be understood in detail for successful outcomes.
- Target susceptibility genes must be examined for growth-defence trade-offs.
- Public appreciation of the gene editing technologies and strategies is key to success.
The next WG meeting will be held online on 21st October 2025.
More information will be available in a few weeks.
We look forward to meeting you in October.
Andreas, Mariana, Beat, Maria and Karin.
Beat Keller, Maria Pozo, Andreas Voloudakis and Mariana Schuster (Plant Health WG chairs)
Karin Metzlaff (EPSO Executive Director)
Click here to read: The Report and recommendations of the 2nd workshop on Plant Health
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