Genome editing of model oleaginous microalgae Nannochloropsis spp. by CRISPR/Cas9

Plant Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1071-1081

  Wang, Qintao ^a,b   Lu, Yandu ^a,c   Xin, Yi ^a   Wei, Li ^a   Huang, Shi ^a,b   Xu, Jian ^a,b  

^a QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat Cas system; genome editing; Nannochloropsis spp.; nitrate reductase; oleaginous microalgae; technical advance

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENZYMES; GENE ENCODING; MICROORGANISMS; NITRATES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM NITRATE;

MICRO-ALGAE; NANNOCHLOROPSIS SPP; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PALINDROMIC; TECHNICAL ADVANCES;

ALGAE;

NITRATE REDUCTASE;

CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EDITING; MICROALGAE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84991737543     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13307     Document Type: Article

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