Dear Editor,Compared with traditional technologies affecting gene expression,changing DNA sequences of target genes is one of the most outstanding characters of CRISPR(Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic...Dear Editor,Compared with traditional technologies affecting gene expression,changing DNA sequences of target genes is one of the most outstanding characters of CRISPR(Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats).Single-guide RNAs(sgRNAs)guiding endonuclease Cas to target sites is a crucial step of CRISPR-Cas system for changing DNA sequences.An ideal sgRNA should only bind to the target gene.However,similar sequences of non-target sites can also be recognized leading to off-target effects[1].展开更多
Dear Editor,In 2005,the current commonly used rice reference genome(Oryza sativa ssp.japonica cv.Nipponbare)was initially released by the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project(International Rice Genome Sequenci...Dear Editor,In 2005,the current commonly used rice reference genome(Oryza sativa ssp.japonica cv.Nipponbare)was initially released by the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project(International Rice Genome Sequencing Project,2005).Thereafter,the reference genome was further updated in 2013 with improved genome assembly(IRGSP-1.0)and gene annotations(MSU7,RAP-DB)(Kawahara et al.,2013;Sakai et al.,2013).In the past 10 years,this reference has been serving as one of the most important genetic resources for subsequent rice functional genomics efforts.As several rice genomes had been assembled into gapless chromosomes with only 2–5 telomeres absent(Li et al.,2021;Song et al.,2021;Zhang et al.,2022),the IRGSP1.0 and its annotations still performed as the most widely used reference.However,limitations of sequencing technology and intricate genomic organization led to an under-representation of complex regions in this reference,leaving a total of 72 major gaps(including 19 telomeres),167 minor gaps,and 779 unknown bases(Kawahara et al.,2013),with an estimated length of3%of the genome unsolved.展开更多
基金This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32100501)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(Grant No.RCBS20210609103819020)J.Z.was funded by the Zhejiang Science and Technology Major Program on Agricultural New Variety Breeding(2021C02070-1).
文摘Dear Editor,Compared with traditional technologies affecting gene expression,changing DNA sequences of target genes is one of the most outstanding characters of CRISPR(Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats).Single-guide RNAs(sgRNAs)guiding endonuclease Cas to target sites is a crucial step of CRISPR-Cas system for changing DNA sequences.An ideal sgRNA should only bind to the target gene.However,similar sequences of non-target sites can also be recognized leading to off-target effects[1].
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32188102,32101718)Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2023B1515020053)+1 种基金the Youth Innovation of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(Y20230C36)the specific research fund of The Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province(YSPTZX202303).
文摘Dear Editor,In 2005,the current commonly used rice reference genome(Oryza sativa ssp.japonica cv.Nipponbare)was initially released by the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project(International Rice Genome Sequencing Project,2005).Thereafter,the reference genome was further updated in 2013 with improved genome assembly(IRGSP-1.0)and gene annotations(MSU7,RAP-DB)(Kawahara et al.,2013;Sakai et al.,2013).In the past 10 years,this reference has been serving as one of the most important genetic resources for subsequent rice functional genomics efforts.As several rice genomes had been assembled into gapless chromosomes with only 2–5 telomeres absent(Li et al.,2021;Song et al.,2021;Zhang et al.,2022),the IRGSP1.0 and its annotations still performed as the most widely used reference.However,limitations of sequencing technology and intricate genomic organization led to an under-representation of complex regions in this reference,leaving a total of 72 major gaps(including 19 telomeres),167 minor gaps,and 779 unknown bases(Kawahara et al.,2013),with an estimated length of3%of the genome unsolved.
