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ArticleScientific reports2023

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated disruption of CjACOS5 confers no-pollen formation on sugi trees (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don).

Mitsuru Nishiguchi, Norihiro Futamura, Masaki Endo, Masafumi Mikami, Seiichi Toki, Shin-Ichiro Katahata, Yasunori Ohmiya, Ken-Ichi Konagaya, Yoshihiko Nanasato, Toru Taniguchi and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Mitsuru NishiguchiDepartment of Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan. nishi3@ffpri.affrc.go.jp.
Norihiro FutamuraDepartment of Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan.
Masaki EndoInstitute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1-2 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8634, Japan.
Masafumi MikamiInstitute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1-2 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8634, Japan.
Seiichi TokiInstitute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1-2 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8634, Japan.
Shin-Ichiro KatahataFaculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, Yanagido 1-1, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan.
Yasunori OhmiyaExtension and International Cooperation Department, Forest Tree Breeding Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 3809-1 Ishi, Juo, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 319-1301, Japan.
Ken-Ichi KonagayaForest Bio-Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 3809-1 Ishi, Juo, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 319-1301, Japan.
Yoshihiko NanasatoForest Bio-Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 3809-1 Ishi, Juo, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 319-1301, Japan.
Toru TaniguchiForest Bio-Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 3809-1 Ishi, Juo, Hitachi, Ibaraki, 319-1301, Japan.
Tsuyoshi Emilio MaruyamaDepartment of Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan.
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute · JPYokohama City University · JPGifu University · JPInstitute of Agrobiological Sciences · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) is an economically important coniferous tree in Japan. However, abundant sugi pollen grains are dispersed and transported by the wind each spring and cause a severe pollen allergy syndrome (Japanese cedar pollinosis). The use of pollen-free sugi that cannot produce pollen has been thought as a countermeasure to Japanese cedar pollinosis. The sugi CjACOS5 gene is an ortholog of Arabidopsis ACOS5 and rice OsACOS12, which encode an acyl-CoA synthetase that is involved in the synthesis of sporopollenin in pollen walls. To generate pollen-free sugi, we mutated CjACOS5 using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. As a result of sugi transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring the CjACOS5-targeted CRISPR/Cas9 vector, 1 bp-deleted homo biallelic mutant lines were obtained. Chimeric mutant lines harboring both mutant and wild-type CjACOS5 genes were also generated. The homo biallelic mutant lines had no-pollen in male strobili, whereas chimeric mutant lines had male strobili with or without pollen grains. Our results suggest that CjACOS5 is essential for the production of pollen in sugi and that its disruption is useful for the generation of pollen-free sugi. In addition to conventional transgenic technology, genome editing technology, including CRISPR/Cas9, can confer new traits on sugi.

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ArabidopsisCryptomeriaRhinitis, Allergic, SeasonalCRISPR-Cas SystemsHumansPollenTrees

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