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

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 971-985

  Lowder, Levi G ^a   Zhang, Dengwei ^b   Baltes, Nicholas J ^c   Paul, Joseph W ^a   Tang, Xu ^b   Zheng, Xuelian ^b   Voytas, Daniel F ^c   Hsieh, Tzung Fu ^d   Zhang, Yong ^b   Qi, Yiping ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAS9 ENDONUCLEASE STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ENDONUCLEASE; GUIDE RNA; PLANT PROTEIN; T-DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MUTAGENESIS; ORYZA; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MUTAGENESIS; ORYZA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, GUIDE; TOBACCO;

EID: 84942931752     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00636     Document Type: Article

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