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ArticlePlant biotechnology journal2018

Establishing RNA virus resistance in plants by harnessing CRISPR immune system.

Tong Zhang, Qiufeng Zheng, Xin Yi, Hong An, Yaling Zhao, Siqi Ma, Guohui Zhou

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Article in Plant biotechnology journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers.

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105 citing papers in PubMed, 244 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Tong ZhangGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5725-9510
Qiufeng ZhengGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Xin YiKey Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Hong AnDivision of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Yaling ZhaoGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Siqi MaGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Guohui ZhouGuangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
South China Agricultural University · CNUniversity of Missouri · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, CRISPR-Cas (clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated proteins) system has been used to produce plants resistant to DNA virus infections. However, there is no RNA virus control method in plants that uses CRISPR-Cas system to target the viral genome directly. Here, we reprogrammed the CRISPR-Cas9 system from Francisella novicida to confer molecular immunity against RNA viruses in Nicotiana benthamiana and Arabidopsis plants. Plants expressing FnCas9 and sgRNA specific for the cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) or tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) exhibited significantly attenuated virus infection symptoms and reduced viral RNA accumulation. Furthermore, in the transgenic virus-targeting plants, the resistance was inheritable and the progenies showed significantly less virus accumulation. These data reveal that the CRISPR/Cas9 system can be used to produce plant that stable resistant to RNA viruses, thereby broadening the use of such technology for virus control in agricultural field.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsFrancisellaPlant DiseasesPlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA VirusesCRISPRdirect targetingFrancisella novicidaresistanceRNA virus

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PMID29327438
PMCPMC6041442
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