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The CRISPR revolution and grapevine

Genome editing is a catchall phrase to describe the technologies that are available to alter an organism’s DNA. The most promising of these technologies is CRISPR, which is an acronym for ‘Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats’ and occurs in nature as a bacterial ‘immune system’.

By Manuela Campa, Philip Young, Melané Vivier and Johan Burger · 9 min read