Response of plants to water stress

Y Osakabe, K Osakabe, K Shinozaki… - Frontiers in plant …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Water stress adversely impacts many aspects of the physiology of plants, especially
photosynthetic capacity. If the stress is prolonged, plant growth, and productivity are severely …

ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas-based methods for genome engineering

T Gaj, CA Gersbach, CF Barbas - Trends in biotechnology, 2013 - cell.com
Zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) and transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs)
comprise a powerful class of tools that are redefining the boundaries of biological research …

Efficient DNA-free genome editing of bread wheat using CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complexes

Z Liang, K Chen, T Li, Y Zhang, Y Wang, Q Zhao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Substantial efforts are being made to optimize the CRISPR/Cas9 system for precision crop
breeding. The avoidance of transgene integration and reduction of off-target mutations are …

A highly specific SpCas9 variant is identified by in vivo screening in yeast

A Casini, M Olivieri, G Petris, C Montagna… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite the utility of CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases for genome editing, the potential for off-target
activity limits their application, especially for therapeutic purposes,. We developed a yeast …

A multipurpose toolkit to enable advanced genome engineering in plants

T Čermák, SJ Curtin, J Gil-Humanes, R Čegan… - The Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We report a comprehensive toolkit that enables targeted, specific modification of monocot
and dicot genomes using a variety of genome engineering approaches. Our reagents …

Simultaneous editing of three homoeoalleles in hexaploid bread wheat confers heritable resistance to powdery mildew

Y Wang, X Cheng, Q Shan, Y Zhang, J Liu, C Gao… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Sequence-specific nucleases have been applied to engineer targeted modifications in
polyploid genomes, but simultaneous modification of multiple homoeoalleles has not been …

A CRISPR/Cas9 toolbox for multiplexed plant genome editing and transcriptional regulation

LG Lowder, D Zhang, NJ Baltes, JW Paul III… - Plant …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The relative ease, speed, and biological scope of clustered regularly interspaced short
palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated Protein9 (Cas9)-based reagents for …

Targeted genome modification of crop plants using a CRISPR-Cas system

Q Shan, Y Wang, J Li, Y Zhang, K Chen, Z Liang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
To the Editor: Although genome editing technologies using zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) 1
and transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) 2 can generate genome …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR/Cas9 platforms for genome editing in plants: developments and applications

X Ma, Q Zhu, Y Chen, YG Liu - Molecular plant, 2016 - cell.com
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated protein9
(Cas9) genome editing system (CRISPR/Cas9) is adapted from the prokaryotic type II …

Genome editing in rice and wheat using the CRISPR/Cas system

Q Shan, Y Wang, J Li, C Gao - Nature protocols, 2014 - nature.com
Targeted genome editing nucleases, such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) and transcription
activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), are powerful tools for understanding gene …