date:Aug 28, 2014
t when Crambe is crossbred, it can produce, at most, 65 per cent erucic acid: too little to make the crop economically viable. That is why the Chinese PhD student Weicong Qi investigated the possibility of enhancing erucic acid production in crambe by applying genetic modification.
Genetically Modifying Crambe
Mr Qi has developed a workable system for genetically modifying crambe, and one that does not lead to marker genes in the crop. He used the technique to transfer a gene to crambe which m