CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...by Benoit Giquel.
CRISPR has taken the genome engineering world by storm owing to its ease of use and utility...Waltz, 2016), the potential of CRISPR for genome engineering in plants is also being realized. There are a...plants with the phenotype of interest. Genome engineering, on the other hand, allows for targeted modification...phenotype. In fact, CRISPR has already been used to engineer the genome of many plant species, including commonly...will present a general overview of plant genome engineering using CRISPR, highlight the specific modifications...plants, and outline the various plant genome engineering tools that are available to academic researchers... Addgene.
CRISPR components for plant genome engineering
CRISPR can be used to knockout, activate or repress...