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CRISPR/Cas9 editing of carotenoid genes in tomato.
Transgenic research - 1 Aug 2018
D'Ambrosio Caterina, Stigliani Adriana Lucia, Giorio Giovanni
Abstract excerpt
CRISPR/Cas9 technology is rapidly spreading as genome editing system in crop breeding. The efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9 in tomato was tested on Psy1 and CrtR-b2, two key genes of carotenoid biosynthesis. Carotenoids are plant secondary metabolites that must be present in the diet of higher animals because they exert irreplaceable functions in important physiological processes. Psy1 and CrtR-b2 were chosen because...
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