Gene Drive Projects
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Plantae
Streptophyta (land plants and green algae)
Angiospermae (angiosperms - flowering plants)
Poales (grasses, sedges and related monocot plants)
Black grass
Readiness of Technology
1 - Gene drive proposedPublications
Intended use
To reduce the presence and impact of weed species on agricultural production by suppressing them, or by modifying them, potentially to render them less competitive, or more sensitive to herbicide.
Bermuda grass
Readiness of Technology
1 - Gene drive proposedPublications
Intended use
To reduce the presence and impact of weed species on agricultural production by modifying them, potentially to render them less competitive, or more sensitive to herbicide.
Purple nut sedge
Readiness of Technology
1 - Gene drive proposedPublications
Intended use
To reduce the presence and impact of weed species on agricultural production by modifying them, potentially to render them less competitive, or more sensitive to herbicide.
Rigid rye grass
Readiness of Technology
1 - Gene drive proposedPublications
Intended use
To reduce the presence and impact of weed species on agricultural production by suppressing them, or by modifying them, potentially to render them less competitive, or more sensitive to herbicide.
Pearl millet
Readiness of Technology
1 - Gene drive proposedPublications
Intended use
To reduce the presence and impact of weed species on agricultural production by modifying them, potentially to render them less competitive, or more sensitive to herbicide
Solanales (includes the nightshades - tobacco, potato, etc)
Tobacco
Readiness of Technology
4a - Active research on gene drive constructionPublications
Intended use
To demonstrate a technology for modifying the plant mitochondrial genome for laboratory experiments and to ‘enable the exploitation of mitochondria in biotechnology and synthetic biology’.
Type of system
'TALEN gene-drive mutagenesis'