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Crops are made resistant to pathogens such as wheat stem rust, Asian soybean rust and potato late blight by methods to access the pool of resistance genes present in related plants.
A genome smaller than any known natural or reduced genome has been designed, synthesized and shown capable of sustaining self-replication in a free-living environment.