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ArticleScientific reports2018

Targeted mutagenesis in wheat microspores using CRISPR/Cas9.

Pankaj Bhowmik, Evan Ellison, Brittany Polley, Venkatesh Bollina, Manoj Kulkarni, Kaveh Ghanbarnia, Halim Song, Caixia Gao, Daniel F Voytas, Sateesh Kagale

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 140 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Pankaj BhowmikCanadian Wheat Improvement Flagship Program, National Research Council Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada. Pankaj.Bhowmik@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-9420-2791
Evan EllisonDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
Brittany PolleyCanadian Wheat Improvement Flagship Program, National Research Council Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada.
Venkatesh BollinaCanadian Wheat Improvement Flagship Program, National Research Council Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada.
Manoj KulkarniCanadian Wheat Improvement Flagship Program, National Research Council Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada.
Kaveh GhanbarniaCanadian Wheat Improvement Flagship Program, National Research Council Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada.
Halim SongCanadian Wheat Improvement Flagship Program, National Research Council Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada.
Caixia GaoState Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Center for Genome Editing, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3169-8248
Daniel F VoytasDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
Sateesh KagaleCanadian Wheat Improvement Flagship Program, National Research Council Canada, 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada. Sateesh.Kagale@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-7213-1590
National Research Council Canada · CAPlant Biotechnology Institute · CAUniversity of Minnesota · USChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is a transformative technology that will facilitate the development of crops to meet future demands. However, application of gene editing is hindered by the long life cycle of many crop species and because desired genotypes generally require multiple generations to achieve. Single-celled microspores are haploid cells that can develop into double haploid plants and have been widely used as a breeding tool to generate homozygous plants within a generation. In this study, we combined the CRISPR/Cas9 system with microspore technology and developed an optimized haploid mutagenesis system to induce genetic modifications in the wheat genome. We investigated a number of factors that may affect the delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 reagents into microspores and found that electroporation of a minimum of 75,000 cells using 10-20 µg DNA and a pulsing voltage of 500 V is optimal for microspore transfection using the Neon transfection system. Using multiple Cas9 and sgRNA constructs, we present evidence for the seamless introduction of targeted modifications in an exogenous DsRed gene and two endogenous wheat genes, including TaLox2 and TaUbiL1. This study demonstrates the value and feasibility of combining microspore technology and CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing for trait discovery and improvement in plants.

Indexed as

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsCrops, AgriculturalGene EditingGenes, PlantGenome, PlantMutagenesisPlants, Genetically ModifiedPollenTriticum

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PMID29695804
PMCPMC5916876
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