{"id":93347,"date":"2019-07-09T03:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-successfully-edit-a-long-locked-part-of-plant-dna-improving-crop-security"},"modified":"2019-07-09T03:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:42:28","slug":"scientists-successfully-edit-a-long-locked-part-of-plant-dna-improving-crop-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-successfully-edit-a-long-locked-part-of-plant-dna-improving-crop-security","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully edit a long-locked part of plant DNA, improving crop security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-edit-a-long-locked-part-of-plant-dna-improving-crop-security.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think of DNA and chances are the double helix structure comes to mind, but that\u2019s only one piece of the puzzle. Another major part is mitochondrial DNA, and in plants that\u2019s even more important \u2013 and so complex that scientists haven\u2019t yet been able to edit the genes in there. Now a team of Japanese researchers has managed to do just that, which could help improve the genetic diversity of crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of DNA and chances are the double helix structure comes to mind, but that\u2019s only one piece of the puzzle. Another major part is mitochondrial DNA, and in plants that\u2019s even more important \u2013 and so complex that scientists haven\u2019t yet been able to edit the genes in there. Now a team of Japanese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93347","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}