CRISPR-Cas9: Tool for qualitative and quantitative plant genome editing

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue NOVEMBER2016, 2016, Pages

  Noman, Ali ^a   Aqeel, Muhammad ^b   He, Shuilin ^a  

^a FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

CRISPR; Genome editing; Novel phenotypes; Plants; Targeted modifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998673639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01740     Document Type: Review

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