Phytologist Letters Forum 299 mutants are expected to shed further light on the functional
redundancy of the 4CL family. An advantage of gRNA stacking is the simplicity of construct …

With the rapid increase in the global population and the impact of climate change on
agriculture, there is a need for crops with higher yields and greater tolerance to abiotic …

In an effort to produce reliably contained transgenic trees, we used the CRISPR/Cas9
system to alter three genes expected to be required for normal flowering in poplar (genus …

The CRISPR technology continues to diversify with a broadening array of applications that
touch all kingdoms of life. The simplicity, versatility and species-independent nature of the …

The CRISPR‐Cas‐based genome editing field in plants is expanding rapidly. Editing plant
promoters to obtain cis‐regulatory alleles with altered expression levels or patterns of target …

Clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated proteins
(CRISPR-Cas), a groundbreaking genome-engineering tool, has facilitated targeted trait …

Background To meet increasing demand for forest-based products and protect natural
forests from further deforestation requires increased productivity from planted forests …

The recent development of tools for precise editing of user-specified sequences is rapidly
changing the landscape for plant genetics and biotechnology. It is now possible to target …

Recently, RNA-guided genome editing using the type II clustered regularly interspaced short
palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein (Cas) system has been applied to edit the …

Genome editing technologies are being widely adopted in plant breeding. However, a
looming challenge of engineering desirable genetic variation in diverse genotypes is poor …