摘要
Precise base editing is highly desired in plant functional genomic research and crop molecular breeding. In this study, we constructed a rice-codon optimized adenine base editor(ABE)-nC as9 tool that induced targeted A·T to G·C point mutation of a key single nucleotide polymorphism site in an important agricultural gene. Combined with the modified single-guide RNA variant, our plant ABE tool can efficiently achieve adenine base editing in the rice genome.
Precise base editing is highly desired in plant functional genomic research and crop molecular breeding. In this study, we constructed a rice-codon optimized adenine base editor(ABE)-nC as9 tool that induced targeted A·T to G·C point mutation of a key single nucleotide polymorphism site in an important agricultural gene. Combined with the modified single-guide RNA variant, our plant ABE tool can efficiently achieve adenine base editing in the rice genome.
基金
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31501239)
the Genetically Modified Breeding Major Projects (Grant No. 2016ZX08010-002-008)
