Applications of CRISPR Cas9 in crop improvement
Right from the beginning genetics has always been an interesting field as it gives us an insight into the genetic constitution of our body, which governs nearly each and every trait of an organism via the central dogma of life. Since the 1970s scientists have made several attempts at genetic manipulation in plants and different organisms to tackle some of the most harmful diseases like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and many more. One of the most advanced techniques in this field is CRISPR Cas9 which is the easiest, cheapest, and fastest as compared to others. CRISPR Stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats which can be characterized as one of the main parts of the Bacterial Immune system to prevent itself from attacks by viruses. The working of CRISPR Cas9 can be understood by the mechanism that when a virus attacks a bacteria by injecting its DNA into the cell, the CRISPR System makes a double-stranded cut in the viral DNA at specific points and inte...