From Genetic Stock to Genome Editing: Gene Exploitation in Wheat

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 160-172

  Wang, Meng ^a,b,c   Wang, Shubin ^b   Liang, Zhen ^c   Shi, Weiming ^a   Gao, Caixia ^c   Xia, Guangmin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

agronomically important genes; bread wheat; functional genetics; genetic stock; genome editing

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BREAD WHEAT; FUNCTIONAL GENETICS; GENETIC STOCKS; INTROGRESSION LINES; NATURAL VARIATION; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

GENES;

ANEUPLOIDY; CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM; DIPLOIDY; EPIGENETICS; EXOME; GENE EDITING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STOCK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMPLASM; MUTAGENESIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TETRAPLOIDY; WHEAT; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; CONSERVATIONAL SEED BANK; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CROP; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; PROCEDURES; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE;

CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EDITING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MUTAGENESIS; PLANT BREEDING; POLYPLOIDY; SEED BANK; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR-LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASES; TRITICUM;

EID: 85033449137     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.10.002     Document Type: Review

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