Engineering Quantitative Trait Variation for Crop Improvement by Genome Editing

Cell

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 470-480.e8

  Rodríguez Leal, Daniel ^a   Lemmon, Zachary H ^a   Man, Jarrett ^b   Bartlett, Madelaine E ^b   Lippman, Zachary B ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

breeding; cis regulatory; CRISPR Cas9; domestication; flowering; fruit size; inflorescence; QTL; quantitative variation; tomato

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT SIZE; GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT STRUCTURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TOMATO; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CROP; GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EDITING; GENOME, PLANT; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85029442051     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.030     Document Type: Article

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