Generation of high-amylose rice through CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis of starch branching enzymes

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Sun, Yongwei ^a   Jiao, Guiai ^b   Liu, Zupei ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Li, Jingying ^a   Guo, Xiuping ^a   Du, Wenming ^a   Du, Jinlu ^a   Francis, Frédéric ^c   Zhao, Yunde ^d   Xia, Lanqin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b CHINA NATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amylose content (AC); CRISPR Cas9; Genome editing; Resistant starch (RS); Rice; Starch; Starch branching enzyme (SBE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014906772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00298     Document Type: Article

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