Precise genome modification via sequence-specific nucleases-mediated gene targeting for crop improvement

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue DECEMBER2016, 2016, Pages

  Sun, Yongwei ^a   Li, Jingying ^a   Xia, Lanqin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) Cas9; Crops; Double strand breaks (DSBs); Gene targeting (GT); Homology directed repair (HDR); Sequence specific nucleases (SSNs); Transcription activator like effector nucleases (TALENs); Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007363846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01928     Document Type: Review

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