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Bayer gets a taste for gene-edited vegetables

by Alex Scott
June 1, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 17

 

An array of fruits and vegetables.
Credit: Bayer
Bayer aims to genetically modify fruits and vegetables.

Bayer has acquired an exclusive license to produce 10 varieties of gene-edited mustard greens developed by the US start-up Pairwise. The US firm has been “dialing down the wasabi-like flavor” of the mustard leaves by editing plant genes with CRISPR. In a separate move, Bayer and South Korea’s G+FLAS Life Sciences are codeveloping genome-edited tomatoes enhanced with vitamin D3. The collaboration leverages G+FLAS’s genome-editing technology and Bayer’s tomato germplasm.

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