{"id":241394,"date":"2026-07-23T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/genome-tool-places-large-genetic-sequences-precisely-in-rice-and-tobacco-without-dna-breaks"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:27:09","slug":"genome-tool-places-large-genetic-sequences-precisely-in-rice-and-tobacco-without-dna-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/genome-tool-places-large-genetic-sequences-precisely-in-rice-and-tobacco-without-dna-breaks","title":{"rendered":"Genome tool places large genetic sequences precisely in rice and tobacco without DNA breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genome-tool-places-large-genetic-sequences-precisely-in-rice-and-tobacco-without-dna-breaks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of genetic information to plants, overcoming a challenge that has limited plant biotechnology for decades. The advance could help scientists build more complex traits into plants in the future, supporting research into areas such as crop resilience, sustainable agriculture, biotechnology and the use of plants as scalable platforms for producing therapeutics and biologics.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Nature Biotechnology<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03181-6\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> introduces a new genome engineering approach that allows scientists to place large genes into specific locations within plant genomes. The approach was successfully demonstrated in both tobacco and rice, opening new possibilities for future research in agricultural biotechnology, synthetic biology and plant-based biomanufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of genetic information to plants, overcoming a challenge that has limited plant biotechnology for decades. The advance could help scientists build more complex traits into plants in the future, supporting research into areas such as crop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241394","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}