DuPont Pioneer/CIMMYT in CRISPR pact

摘要

DuPont seed subsidiary DuPont Pioneer and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, the CIMMYT, in Mexico are to jointly develop crops using the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-Cas genome-editing technology. The companies have signed a “master alliance agreement” focusing on smallholder farmers around the world.