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ArticleNature communications2017

Targeted recombination between homologous chromosomes for precise breeding in tomato.

Shdema Filler Hayut, Cathy Melamed Bessudo, Avraham A Levy

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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92citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 194 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shdema Filler HayutDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Cathy Melamed BessudoDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Avraham A LevyDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-3097-1540
Weizmann Institute of Science · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homologous recombination (HR) between parental chromosomes occurs stochastically. Here, we report on targeted recombination between homologous chromosomes upon somatic induction of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) via CRISPR-Cas9. We demonstrate this via a visual and molecular assay whereby DSB induction between two alleles carrying different mutations in the PHYTOENE SYNTHASE (PSY1) gene results in yellow fruits with wild type red sectors forming via HR-mediated DSB repair. We also show that in heterozygote plants containing one psy1 allele immune and one sensitive to CRISPR, repair of the broken allele using the unbroken allele sequence template is a common outcome. In another assay, we show evidence of a somatically induced DSB in a cross between a psy1 edible tomato mutant and wild type Solanum pimpinellifolium, targeting only the S. pimpinellifolium allele. This enables characterization of germinally transmitted targeted somatic HR events, demonstrating that somatically induced DSBs can be exploited for precise breeding of crops.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedGene TargetingGenome, PlantHeterozygoteHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMutationPlant BreedingPlant ProteinsPlants, Genetically ModifiedRecombinational DNA RepairSolanum lycopersicumWhole Genome SequencingPlant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID28548094
PMCPMC5458649
OpenAlexW2619703893

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