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Blackberry lovers everywhere can rejoice! NC State University alumna Lauren Redpath has harvested success by helping develop the world’s first seedless blackberry.

“Everyone would love to eat a better fruit, such as a seedless berry,” says Redpath, who earned her doctoral degree in horticultural science from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2021. “I am interested in making fruit more accessible to more people. Plant gene editing makes these goals accessible and achievable on a faster timeline than conventional breeding.”

Plant Gene Editing Innovation

Redpath works at Pairwise, a Durham-based tech company pioneering the application of gene editing innovation in food and agriculture. Redpath and other Pairwise experts leveraged the highly sophisticated CRISPR technology to develop the new seedless fruit by editing its DNA.

CRISPR, or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, acts like a GPS for DNA by identifying specific points of a genome. Those points can then be edited to change traits in a plant, CALS.news informs.

Full report: https://east-fruit.com/en/horticultural-business/technologies/the-worlds-first-seedless-blackberry-was-presented-in-the-usa/

Source: East Fruit