Dear Editor,CRISPR(clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas genome editing is a powerful tool for introducing specific mutations in organisms including plants.The system is composed of a nuclease...Dear Editor,CRISPR(clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas genome editing is a powerful tool for introducing specific mutations in organisms including plants.The system is composed of a nuclease such as Cas9 or Cas12a and an engineered single-guide RNA(sgRNA)incorporating a target sequence(Li et al.,2019).A Cas9/sgRNA complex recognizes its target site in the genome,resulting in a mutation at that site.展开更多
Development of tools for targeted modifications of specific DNA sequences in plants is of great importance to basic plant biology research as well as crop improvement.The ability to cut DNA at specific locations in th...Development of tools for targeted modifications of specific DNA sequences in plants is of great importance to basic plant biology research as well as crop improvement.The ability to cut DNA at specific locations in the genome to generate doublestrand breaks(DSBs)in vivo is a prerequisite for any genome editing efforts.展开更多
基金grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91435203 and 31991222)the Major Program of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research (2019B030302006)。
文摘Dear Editor,CRISPR(clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas genome editing is a powerful tool for introducing specific mutations in organisms including plants.The system is composed of a nuclease such as Cas9 or Cas12a and an engineered single-guide RNA(sgRNA)incorporating a target sequence(Li et al.,2019).A Cas9/sgRNA complex recognizes its target site in the genome,resulting in a mutation at that site.
基金supported by a National Transgenic Science and Technology Program (2016ZX08010002)to R.W.a startup fund from the Huazhong Agricultural University
文摘Development of tools for targeted modifications of specific DNA sequences in plants is of great importance to basic plant biology research as well as crop improvement.The ability to cut DNA at specific locations in the genome to generate doublestrand breaks(DSBs)in vivo is a prerequisite for any genome editing efforts.