CRISPR/Cas9: a promising way to exploit genetic variation in plants.

doi:10.1007/s10529-016-2195-z

Article

CRISPR/Cas9: a promising way to exploit genetic variation in plants.

Biotechnology letters - 1 Dec 2016

Rani Reema, Yadav Prashant, Barbadikar Kalyani M, Baliyan Nikita, Malhotra Era Vaidya, Singh Binay Kumar, Kumar Arun, Singh Dhiraj

Abstract excerpt

Creation of variation in existing gene pool of crop plants is the foremost requirement in crop improvement programmes. Genome editing is a tool to produce knock out of target genes either by introduction of insertion or by deletion that disrupts the function of a specific gene. The CRISPR/Cas9 (c...

Topics

CRISPR-Cas Systems
Crops, Agricultural
Genetic Variation
Genome, Plant
Plant Proteins

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