How can CRISPR be used to save crops from pest damage?

Pierce’s disease is nothing new for grape grower Steve McIntyre, who works in central California. But his experience wasn’t enough to prevent him from being shocked by what he saw in 1998 when visiting his brother’s citrus and avocado farm in Southern California. This disease causes grapevines to wilt and the grapes to curl up like old balloons, and it has been around in California for a long time. But the injury he saw on a farm next to his brother’s looked different. “It was truly devastating,” McIntyre says. The grapevines seemed completely deprived of watering. On the return trip, McIntyre considered contacting a real estate broker to help him sell his land. And think…

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