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Plant Cell Rep. 2021 Dec 02; doi: 10.1007/s00299-021-02816-z. Epub 2021 Dec 02.

Endogenous U6 promoters improve CRISPR/Cas9 editing efficiencies in Sorghum bicolor and show potential for applications in other cereals.

Plant cell reports

Karen Massel, Yasmine Lam, Jessica Hintzsche, Nicholas Lester, Jose R Botella, Ian D Godwin

Affiliations

  1. Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia. [email protected].
  2. Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
  3. School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.

PMID: 34854968 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-021-02816-z

Abstract

KEY MESSAGE: Endogenous U6 promoters increase CRISPR/Cas9 editing efficiency in sorghum and may be useful for gene editing applications in other cereals.

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords: Cereals; Gene editing; Promoters; Sorghum

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