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We know hundreds of times less or thousands of times less about the genomics of plants than we know about human genetics.
As an internationally recognized expert in the field of gene editing, Rodolphe Barrangou emphasizes that the knowledge of such groundbreaking technologies as CRISPR is only partial when it comes to plants as compared to the knowledge of gene editing in humans.
“We know hundreds of times less or thousands of times less about the genomics of plants than we know about human genetics,” says Barrangou, a professor in probiotics research at North Carolina State University and the co-founder of TreeCo, a new biotech forestry company.