a trend beijing believes is urgently needed. we only have a limited demand a resource for the whole world is there are there eventually is our people population is growing and await me a lot more food it's a new breeding technology it just help us to great much better and faster way to get those products to the market the gene editing method could for example be used to prevent plant diseases like powdery mildew which is common and some wheat varieties. in older genome editing approaches a gene from an unaffected wheat variety had to be transplanted into a susceptible variety using the new genome editing tool only a single gene needs to be snipped out of the susceptible we need to make it immune to the disease. that finding is the work of gosh i've got a whole a pioneering plant biologist at the chinese academy of. sciences. she also studies