Domestication of wild tomato is accelerated by genome editing 

 -  Nature Biotechnology, 36(12), p.1160-1164, 2018 .
<br/><br/> Crop improvement by inbreeding often results in fitness penalties and loss of genetic diversity. We introduced desirable traits into four stress-tolerant wild-tomato accessions by using multiplex CRISPR-Cas9 editing of coding sequences, cisregulatory regions or upstream open reading frames of genes associated with morphology, flower and fruit production, and ascorbic acid synthesis. Cas9-free progeny of edited plants had domesticated phenotypes yet retained parental disease resistance and salt tolerance. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CROP<br/>TOMATO<br/>GENOME