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Here’s the new adage parents of the future will tell their kids: “Eat your genetically edited vegetables.”

You may have already heard of the CRISPR system, a genetic engineering technique that allows for incredibly precise gene editing. Now, researchers from the Department of Crop Genetics at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom, used CRISPR/Cas-9 gene editing to successfully modify the genomes of two main crop groups in the U.K.: barley, and the brassica family, which includes cabbage and broccoli.

CRISPR is making headlines for modifying human embryos and building woolly mammoths, but the John Innes Centre’s study shows the beginnings of the flora world finally finding its footing in genomic editing. The ability to edit plant genes means scientists may finally be able to remove potentially dangerous genetic strains found in staple crops, like the ones potentially toxic to humans and animals, or…

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