Genome editing as a tool to achieve the crop ideotype and de novo domestication of wild relatives: Case study in tomato

Plant Science

Volumn 256, Issue , 2017, Pages 120-130

  Zsögön, Agustin ^a   Cermak, Tomas ^b   Voytas, Dan ^b   Peres, Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breeding; CRISPR Cas9; Genome editing; Stress resistance; TALENs; Yield

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BREEDING; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CROP; DOMESTICATION; FRUIT; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; BREEDING; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DOMESTICATION; FRUIT; GENE EDITING; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85008349846     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: 18732259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2016.12.012     Document Type: Review

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