2017 Rosalind Franklin Award Recipient: CRISPR has the potential to address important challenges

As we’ve covered here before, gene editing holds tremendous promise in advancing modern agriculture. And it’s not hard to see why. With gene editing tools like CRISPR, researchers have the capability to engineer plants to be, amongst other things, better for the environment, more nutritious and disease-resistant.
BIO’s 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award for Leadership in Biotechnology recipient Vonnie Estes is an agtech innovation consultant who is tuned into the current conversation