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ArticleNature plants2026

Efficient prime editors for heritable multiplex precision genome editing in soybean.

Fei Su, Yinghui Dong, Rui Guo, Hailin Xie, Yang Zhang, Jiali Liu, Xuesong Cao, Hongtao Xie, Meili Zhou, Xueping Sun and 3 more

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Fei Su *Institute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID 0009-0003-1301-4583
Yinghui Dong *Institute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China.
Rui Guo *Institute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID 0009-0005-9395-2450
Hailin XieInstitute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID 0009-0009-4910-2992
Yang ZhangInstitute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China.
Jiali LiuInstitute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China.
Xuesong CaoInstitute of Advanced Biotechnology and School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Hongtao XieBellagen Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Jinan, China.
Meili ZhouBellagen Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Jinan, China.ORCID 0009-0007-0006-5823
Xueping SunBellagen Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Jinan, China.
Mugui WangInstitute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China. wangmugui@caas.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-0484-086X
Jinshan ZhangBellagen Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Jinan, China. zhangjinshan@bellagen.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-7360-6837
Jian-Kang ZhuInstitute of Crop Sciences, National Nanfan Research Institute, and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, China. zhujk@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5134-731X

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32188102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prime editing (PE) is limited by low efficiency in dicot plants. Here we develop an optimized PE system for soybean, GmPEplus, by deleting the RNase H domain, introducing a V223A substitution within the reverse transcriptase domain, inserting a viral nucleocapsid protein between Cas9 and reverse transcriptase, and co-expressing a dominant-negative engineered allele of the endogenous GmMLH1. GmPEplus achieves editing efficiencies of up to 81.3% in stable transgenic lines. Subsequently, we show that nicking the non-edited strand using an additional sgRNA via the tRNA processing system enhances editing efficiency, and that optimizing its expression with an independent AtU6 cassette boosts efficiency by 13.1-fold. Importantly, a Csy4-mediated multiplex PE system (CMMPE) is established for simultaneous editing of 2-12 genes in soybean hairy roots and up to 3 genes in stable transgenic lines. GmPEplus and CMMPE offer powerful, versatile tools for precise, multiplex and heritable genome editing in soybean breeding.

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Genome, PlantGlycine maxCRISPR-Cas SystemsGenetic EngineeringPlants, Genetically ModifiedRNA Editing

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