Chinese Hazelnut (IMAGE)

Nanjing Agricultural University The Academy of Science

Chinese Hazelnut

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Hazelnut, widely used for its oil and flavour for items like chocolates and biscuits, can be produced with increased fat content by using gene editing techniques using the newly sequenced genome of the Chinese hazelnut.

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