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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2016

Geminivirus-Mediated Genome Editing in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Using Sequence-Specific Nucleases.

Nathaniel M Butler, Nicholas J Baltes, Daniel F Voytas, David S Douches

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers.

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125citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

125 citing papers in PubMed, 334 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nathaniel M ButlerDepartment of Plant, Soils and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, USA.
Nicholas J BaltesDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA.
Daniel F VoytasDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, USA.
David S DouchesDepartment of Plant, Soils and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI, USA.
Michigan State University · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Genome editing using sequence-specific nucleases (SSNs) is rapidly being developed for genetic engineering in crop species. The utilization of zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated systems (CRISPR/Cas) for inducing double-strand breaks facilitates targeting of virtually any sequence for modification. Targeted mutagenesis via non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) has been demonstrated extensively as being the preferred DNA repair pathway in plants. However, gene targeting via homologous recombination (HR) remains more elusive but could be a powerful tool for directed DNA repair. To overcome barriers associated with gene targeting, a geminivirus replicon (GVR) was used to deliver SSNs targeting the potato ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE1 (ALS1) gene and repair templates designed to incorporate herbicide-inhibiting point mutations within the ALS1 locus. Transformed events modified with GVRs held point mutations that were capable of supporting a reduced herbicide susceptibility phenotype, while events transformed with conventional T-DNAs held no detectable mutations and were similar to wild-type. Regeneration of transformed events improved detection of point mutations that supported a stronger reduced herbicide susceptibility phenotype. These results demonstrate the use of geminiviruses for delivering genome editing reagents in plant species, and a novel approach to gene targeting in a vegetatively propagated species.

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acetolactate synthasebean yellow dwarf virusCRISPR/Casgene replacementgene targetinghomologous recombinationTALENZFN

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