MANHATTAN, KS — Researchers at Kansas State University announced a breakthrough in the development of wheat-based foods that contain lower gluten amounts. The discovery could minimize the effects on those impacted by autoimmune diseases such as celiac.
In partnership with Kansas Wheat, researchers from the university’s Wheat Genetics Resource Center and the USDA Agricultural Research Service used a gene editing technique to reduce the presence of two gliadins, which are gluten-coding genes are known to have an abundance of immunoreactive peptides.