G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics (Feb 2021)

Gene tagging via CRISPR-mediated homology-directed repair in cassava

  • Kira M Veley,
  • Ihuoma Okwuonu,
  • Greg Jensen,
  • Marisa Yoder,
  • Nigel J Taylor,
  • Blake C Meyers,
  • Rebecca S Bart

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab028
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 4

Abstract

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AbstractResearch on a few model plant–pathogen systems has benefitted from years of tool and resource development. This is not the case for the vast majority of economically and nutritionally important plants, creating a crop improvement bottleneck. Cassava bacterial blight (CBB), caused by Xanthomonas axonopodismanihotisXamManihot esculentain vivoSMeSWEET10aMeSWEET10a-GFP