Dear Editor,With the development of CRISPR-Cas technology,an RNAguided CRISPR activation system has been developed in plants,in which a dead Cas9(dCas9)nuclease is fused to transcriptional activators to regulate the t...Dear Editor,With the development of CRISPR-Cas technology,an RNAguided CRISPR activation system has been developed in plants,in which a dead Cas9(dCas9)nuclease is fused to transcriptional activators to regulate the transcription of endogenous genes(Li et al.,2017;Liu et al.,2017;Manghwar et al.,2020;Ming et al.,2020;Pan et al.,2021).Precise upregulation of gene transcription is emerging as a promising approach for functional genomics research,molecular breeding,and germplasm innovation.However,there have been no reports on the use of the CRISPR-dCas9 transcriptional activation system in cotton.展开更多
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文摘Dear Editor,With the development of CRISPR-Cas technology,an RNAguided CRISPR activation system has been developed in plants,in which a dead Cas9(dCas9)nuclease is fused to transcriptional activators to regulate the transcription of endogenous genes(Li et al.,2017;Liu et al.,2017;Manghwar et al.,2020;Ming et al.,2020;Pan et al.,2021).Precise upregulation of gene transcription is emerging as a promising approach for functional genomics research,molecular breeding,and germplasm innovation.However,there have been no reports on the use of the CRISPR-dCas9 transcriptional activation system in cotton.
