Fresh Canadian produce year-round? Gene editing could make it possible
Canadians may soon have more options for fresh, local produce all year long. For the first time, researchers have successfully harvested blueberries through the Canadian winter. The next step? Raise new, gene-edited blueberry plants, designed to be perfect for greenhouse growing. As CBC science communicator Darius Mahdavi explains, more than revived dire wolves or woolly mammoths, this is the future that gene editing promises.