Summary

Gene editing of plant DNA has the potential to produce crops with increased performance and resilience, but it can take a long time to achieve these gains. To shorten this process, scientists often use screening tools to determine where and how edits to the plant genome can be most effective. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have expanded the toolkit available for studying small regulatory elements called upstream open reading frames (uORFs).

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