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Rapid breeding of parthenocarpic tomato plants using CRISPR/Cas9.
Scientific reports - 30 Mar 2017
Ueta Risa, Abe Chihiro, Watanabe Takahito, Sugano Shigeo S, Ishihara Ryosuke, Ezura Hiroshi, Osakabe Yuriko, Osakabe Keishi
Abstract excerpt
Parthenocarpy in horticultural crop plants is an important trait with agricultural value for various industrial purposes as well as direct eating quality. Here, we demonstrate a breeding strategy to generate parthenocarpic tomato plants using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. We optimized the CRISPR/Cas9 system to introduce somatic mutations effectively into SlIAA9-a key gene controlling parthenocarpy-with mutation rates...
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