{"id":168665,"date":"2023-07-30T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-use-gene-editing-to-create-a-better-melon"},"modified":"2023-07-30T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:23:34","slug":"scientists-use-gene-editing-to-create-a-better-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-use-gene-editing-to-create-a-better-melon","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Use Gene Editing To Create a Better Melon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-gene-editing-to-create-a-better-melon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plant hormone ethylene, in its gaseous state, has long been recognized for its ability to hasten fruit ripening and has a notable impact on shelf-life. In a recent study, scientists used the CRISPR\/Cas9 system for gene editing to modify the ethylene production pathway in the luxury Japanese melon (<em>Cucumis melo<\/em> var. <em>reticulatus<\/em> \u201cHarukei-3\u201d) to increase its shelf-life.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were recently published in the journal <em>Frontiers in Genome Editing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plant hormone ethylene, in its gaseous state, has long been recognized for its ability to hasten fruit ripening and has a notable impact on shelf-life. In a recent study, scientists used the CRISPR\/Cas9 system for gene editing to modify the ethylene production pathway in the luxury Japanese melon (Cucumis melo var. reticulatus \u201cHarukei-3\u201d) to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}