Being able to control not just what genes exist in a genome, but also how those genes are expressed is critical to biological research, including agricultural disease resistance research.

UCLA and Danforth Center scientists have used an older method of DNA manipulation (zinc finger nucleases) to block a cassava gene exploited by the cassava bacterial blight pathogen.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35675-7