At the beginning of February, the EU Parliament spoke out in favor of easing the use of new genetic technology such as the CRISPR/Cas genetic scissors in agriculture.
“For us scientists, this is of course a big step forward,” says Professor Holger Puchta from the Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter Institute for Plant Sciences at KIT.
Greentech agriculture: changing the properties of plants so that they are beneficial for agriculture.
With the help of CRISPR/Cas, properties of plants can be changed so that they are beneficial for agriculture.
“For example, you can create plants that have resistance to certain fungi. Of course, this means that you no longer have to use as many pesticides to combat these fungi in agriculture.
So that’s a big ecological advantage.” In the interview, the expert talks about plants that defy climate change as well as opportunities and criticism in relation to CRISPR/Cas SWR 2 impulse.