Hickey said this potential speed multiplication technique not only increases productivity for farmers, but also leads to better quality crops.
Hickey said: " Increasing growth rate is a method to promote our crop development. However, we have demonstrated in our paper that GM technology is also very suitable for speed. I believe that the biggest benefits from this speed of breeding will also be successful integration with other technologies like genomics or CRISPR ".
Although this technology has been largely tested in the laboratory, it has so far been attracting industry interest. For example, Australia's Dow AgroSciences has used technology to speed up breeding to develop wheat varieties with higher resistance to pre-harvest germination.
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