No Sun, No Problem: CRISPR’d Tomatoes Produce Vitamin D
The summer may mean more time in the sun, but many people around the world still do not get enough vitamin D. Now, researchers have used CRISPR-based genome-editing to engineer tomatoes with an accumulation of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC), creating a sustainable source of vitamin D. The gene-edited tomatoes may provide “a biofortified food with the added possibility of supplement production from waste material.”
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