Achieving Plant Genome Editing While Bypassing Tissue Culture

Xiang Ji; Bing Yang; Daowen Wang

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2020.02.011

Achieving Plant Genome Editing While Bypassing Tissue Culture

Trends Plant Sci. 2020 May;25(5):427-429. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.02.011. Epub 2020 Mar 10.

Authors

Xiang Ji¹, Bing Yang², Daowen Wang³

Affiliations

¹ College of Agronomy, State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, and Center for Crop genome Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China. Electronic address: jixiang@henau.edu.cn.
² Division of Plant Sciences, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 66511, USA; Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO 63132, USA.
³ College of Agronomy, State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, and Center for Crop genome Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China. Electronic address: dwwang@henau.edu.cn.

PMID: 32304655
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.02.011

Abstract

Conventional genetic transformation is a huge obstacle to the efficient development and application of plant genome-editing (GE) technologies. Recently, Maher et al. reported successful GE by de novo reprogramming plant meristems in somatic tissues, which sidesteps tissue culture-based transformation and promises to significantly enhance the utility of plant GE.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Gene Editing*
Genes, Plant
Genome, Plant / genetics
Meristem*