[mnw21cam]

No. The FTO gene from humans was inserted into the genome of these plants. That gene produced a protein that performs RNA demethylation, which isn't even epigenetics, because epigenetics is the set of extra stuff that happens on DNA, not RNA.

[apinstein]

Oh my bad I didn’t read the full article. Of course, insertion of a gene to do demethylation would be genetic modification.