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State Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for Saturday September 16, 2023 ( 1 items )  

N.C. State: No Pollen, No Seeds - Genome Editing Technique Yields Useful Traits
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: North Carolina State University researchers have successfully transferred an important gene from one compartment of a plant cell to another to produce tobacco plants that lack pollen and viable seeds, while otherwise growing normally. Their findings could lead to better ways of producing hybrid seeds to maximize crop productivity, or to introduce seedlessness in fruit species lacking  more