The group of Seiichi TOKI at the Biological Laboratory of NIAS has applied Transposagen’s footprint-free piggyBac transposon technology to obtain insect-resistant rice by genomic modification. This is the first application of this technology to plants, and the authors comment on the wide use of this method, even for tomatos
NIAS news release, Dec. 25, 2014
NIAS team uses piggyBac transposon technology to obtain insect-resistant rice