Engineering Plants for Geminivirus Resistance with CRISPR/Cas9 System

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 279-281

  Zaidi, Syed Shan e Ali ^a,b   Mansoor, Shahid ^b   Ali, Zahir ^a   Tashkandi, Manal ^a   Mahfouz, Magdy M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

CRISPR Cas9; geminiviruses; genome editing; virus resistance

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GEMINIVIRIDAE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GEMINIVIRIDAE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 84957673802     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2016.01.023     Document Type: Short Survey

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