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ReviewPlant biotechnology journal2020

CRISPR/dCas9 platforms in plants: strategies and applications beyond genome editing.

Mahdi Moradpour, Siti Nor Akmar Abdulah

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Review in Plant biotechnology journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
91citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 193 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. DNA methylation in plant heterosis: mechanisms and prospects.Functional & integrative genomics · 2025
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  20. Cleaner horizons: Exploring advanced technologies for pollution remediation.Biotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
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31 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mahdi MoradpourLaboratory of Science and Technology, Institute of Plantation Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Siti Nor Akmar AbdulahLaboratory of Science and Technology, Institute of Plantation Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-3611-6094
Universiti Putra Malaysia · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) and Cas9-associated protein systems provide a powerful genetic manipulation tool that can drive plant research forward. Nuclease-dead Cas9 (dCas9) is an enzymatically inactive mutant of Cas9 in which its endonuclease activity is non-functional. The applications of CRISPR/dCas9 have expanded and diversified in recent years. Originally, dCas9 was used as a CRISPR/Cas9 re-engineering tool that enables targeted expression of any gene or multiple genes through recruitment of transcriptional effector domains without introducing irreversible DNA-damaging mutations. Subsequent applications have made use of its ability to recruit modifying enzymes and reporter proteins to DNA target sites. In this paper, the most recent progress in the applications of CRISPR/dCas9 in plants, which include gene activation and repression, epigenome editing, modulation of chromatin topology, live-cell chromatin imaging and DNA-free genetic modification, will be reviewed. The associated strategies for exploiting the CRISPR/dCas9 system for crop improvement with a dimer of the future of the CRISPR/dCas9 system in the functional genomics of crops and the development of traits will be briefly discussed.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingCrops, AgriculturalEndonucleasesTranscriptional ActivationEndonucleaseschromatin imagingchromatin topologyCRISPR/dCas9CRISPR/dCas9 ribonucleoproteinsepigenome editingsgRNAstranscriptional activationtranscriptional regulation

Identifiers

PMID31392820
PMCPMC6920162
OpenAlexW2967483055

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