In addition to the preservation of wild strains of crop plants there is the possibility of discovering altogether new crops. (religion-online.org)
The next year, it was used to edit the genomes of human and mouse cells, followed by frogs, monkeys and such crop plants as rice and wheat. (washingtonpost.com)
This was research with direct application, where the final goal was not just a paper in a journal or a thesis, but a product: a better crop plant for the farmer. (sciencemag.org)