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Plant Genome Editing for Sustainable Agriculture with Evan Groover

Plant Genome Editing for Sustainable Agriculture with Evan Groover10. Aug.52 Min.

On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by Evan Groover, a plant synthetic biologist and postdoctoral fellow in Mary Gehring's lab at the Whitehead Institute at MIT. His work spans CRISPR tool development, engineering photosynthesis, plant epigenetics, and making plant genome editing accessible beyond the well-funded incumbents that have historically dominated the field. Evan grew up in Northern California in what he calls the epicenter of the non-GMO movement,...