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Chilean GM🍊range by Meristem

• Chilean based company improving elite fruit cultivars through precision breeding (i.e. gene editing) and developing new varieties such as pitless cherries.

• Started targeting PDS (phytoene desaturase, involved in the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway) genes to achieve an albino phenotype and achieved a compound heterozygous edit (insertion in one allele, deletion in the other) that is less likely to be naturally repaired by the plant.

• What modifications do they intend to make? Citruses around the world suffer from a lot of pest problems but the company’s mission seems to be more aligned with designer fruit.

From Meristem Bio’s LinkedIn post

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