1. CRISPR/Cas9-Based Genome Editing in Plants
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Yao-Guang Liu, Xianrong Xie, Yaling Zhang, and Xingliang Ma
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0301 basic medicine ,Genetics ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Plant science ,Genome editing ,Effector ,Cas9 ,Palindrome ,CRISPR ,Biology ,Zinc finger nuclease ,Functional genomics - Abstract
Recently, genome editing technologies have shown great potential in plants. The newly developed clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is a new generation of genome editing tool rapidly replacing the earlier zinc finger nucleases and transcription activator-like effector nucleases systems. Indeed, due to its advantages of simplicity and high efficiency, the CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing system is becoming a powerful tool in plant science research. Here, we introduce the technical features of the plant CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing system and its applications in plant functional genomics studies and genetic improvement.
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- 2017
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