Zachary Lippman Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Zachary Lippman There has been breeding for quinoi, and there are varieties of quinoi, but it's a great example of something that could be advanced even further with gene editing. Zachary Lippman top-news We have been eating mutations in plants and animals since humans started to improve crops thousands of years ago, that's a random process and took thousands of years. With gene editing, Zachary Lippman're now just making one mutation in one gene in the simplest sense. Zachary Lippman top-news If you think about agriculture going into the future, we need to have more tools in our toolbox, and the more crops we have at our disposal, the more power we're going to have to address needs. Zachary Lippman top-news When you mutate the gene, it basically shrinks the plant like an accordion so you can make it much more compact. Zachary Lippman top-news