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ArticleScientific reports2023

Targeted mutagenesis of Medicago truncatula Nodule-specific Cysteine-Rich (NCR) genes using the Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated CRISPR/Cas9 system.

Berivan Güngör, János Barnabás Biró, Ágota Domonkos, Beatrix Horváth, Péter Kaló

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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 10 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Berivan Güngör *Institute of Plant Biology, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-5612-1130
János Barnabás Biró *Institute of Plant Biology, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-8851-0387
Ágota DomonkosInstitute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-4017-0605
Beatrix HorváthInstitute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-8499-568X
Péter KalóInstitute of Plant Biology, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary. kalo.peter@brc.hu.ORCID 0000-0002-0404-8904
Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem · HUHUN-REN Szegedi Biológiai Kutatóközpont · HU

Funding

Collaborative Research Programme ICGEB HUN17-03Hungarian National Research Fund/National Research, Development and Innovation Office 129547Hungarian National Research Fund/National Research, Development and Innovation Office 132646Hungarian National Research Fund/National Research, Development and Innovation Office OTKA 119652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The host-produced nodule specific cysteine-rich (NCR) peptides control the terminal differentiation of endosymbiotic rhizobia in the nodules of IRLC legumes. Although the Medicago truncatula genome encodes about 700 NCR peptides, only few of them have been proven to be crucial for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis. In this study, we applied the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology to generate knockout mutants of NCR genes for which no genetic or functional data were previously available. We have developed a workflow to analyse the mutation and the symbiotic phenotype of individual nodules formed on Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transgenic hairy roots. The selected NCR genes were successfully edited by the CRISPR/Cas9 system and nodules formed on knockout hairy roots showed wild type phenotype indicating that peptides NCR068, NCR089, NCR128 and NCR161 are not essential for symbiosis between M. truncatula Jemalong and Sinorhizobium medicae WSM419. We regenerated stable mutants edited for the NCR068 from hairy roots obtained by A. rhizogenes-mediated transformation. The analysis of the symbiotic phenotype of stable ncr068 mutants showed that peptide NCR068 is not required for symbiosis with S. meliloti strains 2011 and FSM-MA either. Our study reports that gene editing can help to elicit the role of certain NCRs in symbiotic nitrogen fixation.

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Medicago truncatulaSinorhizobium melilotiAgrobacteriumCRISPR-Cas SystemsCysteineMutagenesisNitrogen FixationPeptidesRoot Nodules, PlantSymbiosisCysteinePeptides

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PMID38001333
PMCPMC10673856
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