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ArticlePlant biotechnology journal2022

Morphogene-assisted transformation of Sorghum bicolor allows more efficient genome editing.

Kiflom Aregawi, Jianqiang Shen, Grady Pierroz, Manoj K Sharma, Jeffery Dahlberg, Judith Owiti, Peggy G Lemaux

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Article in Plant biotechnology journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kiflom AregawiDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Jianqiang ShenDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7997-7281
Grady PierrozDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Manoj K SharmaDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Jeffery DahlbergUniversity of California Ag & Natural Resources, Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center, Parlier, CA, USA.
Judith OwitiDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Peggy G LemauxDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2842-4724
University of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Nebraska at Kearney · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, the fifth most important cereal worldwide, is a multi-use crop for feed, food, forage and fuel. To enhance the sorghum and other important crop plants, establishing gene function is essential for their improvement. For sorghum, identifying genes associated with its notable abiotic stress tolerances requires a detailed molecular understanding of the genes associated with those traits. The limits of this knowledge became evident from our earlier in-depth sorghum transcriptome study showing that over 40% of its transcriptome had not been annotated. Here, we describe a full spectrum of tools to engineer, edit, annotate and characterize sorghum's genes. Efforts to develop those tools began with a morphogene-assisted transformation (MAT) method that led to accelerated transformation times, nearly half the time required with classical callus-based, non-MAT approaches. These efforts also led to expanded numbers of amenable genotypes, including several not previously transformed or historically recalcitrant. Another transformation advance, termed altruistic, involved introducing a gene of interest in a separate Agrobacterium strain from the one with morphogenes, leading to plants with the gene of interest but without morphogenes. The MAT approach was also successfully used to edit a target exemplary gene, phytoene desaturase. To identify single-copy transformed plants, we adapted a high-throughput technique and also developed a novel method to determine transgene independent integration. These efforts led to an efficient method to determine gene function, expediting research in numerous genotypes of this widely grown, multi-use crop.

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Gene EditingSorghumAgrobacteriumEdible GrainPlants, Genetically ModifiedAgrobacteriumaltruistic morphogene-assisted transformationCRISPR/Cas9 editingengineeringmorphogene-assisted transformationSorghum

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