Simultaneous Editing of Two Copies of Gh14-3-3d Confers Enhanced Transgene-Clean Plant Defense Against Verticillium dahliae in Allotetraploid Upland Cotton

Zhennan Zhang, Xiaoyang Ge, Xiaoli Luo, Peng Wang, Qiang Fan, Guang Hu, Juan-Li Xiao, Fuguang Li, Jiahe Wu

Frontiers in Plant Science · 2018 · 153 citations · 57 references

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infestation compared to the wild-type plants. Thus, the two transgene-clean edited lines can be used as a germplasm to breed disease-resistant cotton cultivars, possibly avoiding complex and expensive safety assessments of the transgenic plants.

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