USA
August 2019

In addition to our work on tackling crop diseases, 2Blades is dedicated to developing and sharing enabling technologies that allow others to follow in our footsteps. For example, we have fostered the development and commercialization of the TALENs gene-editing platform, with tiered, non-exclusive license access that has ensured that a broad diversity of users have access to this revolutionary technology for plant science.

Recently, a 2Blades-supported team headed up by Dr. Mick Ayliffe (CSIRO, Australia) reported on the use of TALENs to edit genes in wheat. Mick's team worked with TAL Code co-discoverer, Prof. Thomas Lahaye, at the University of Tubingen, Germany. They achieved highly efficient (up to 85%) and heritable editing of the challenging hexaploid wheat genome.

Read the paper here. 

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Published: August 29, 2019