Targeted mutagenesis, precise gene editing, and site-specific gene insertion in maize using Cas9 and guide RNA

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 931-945

  Svitashev, Sergei ^a   Young, Joshua K ^a   Schwartz, Christine ^a   Gao, Huirong ^a   Falco, S Carl ^a   Cigan, A Mark ^a  

^a Trait Enabling Technologies DuPont Pioneer   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; GUIDE RNA; PLANT PROTEIN;

AGROBACTERIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MAIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PLANT BREEDING; PROCEDURES;

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; AGROBACTERIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, GUIDE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84942901283     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00793     Document Type: Article

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