A novel and powerful approach for designing future crops-target editing promoter overcomes tradeoffs caused by gene pleiotropy

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¹ State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China and Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University at Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China and Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University at Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, China. jingwang406@sicau.edu.cn.
³ State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China and Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University at Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, China. xwchen88@163.com.

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Qingqing Hou et al. Sci China Life Sci. 2022 Oct.

. 2022 Oct;65(10):2128-2130.

doi: 10.1007/s11427-022-2129-1. Epub 2022 Jun 1.

¹ State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China and Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University at Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China and Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University at Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, China. jingwang406@sicau.edu.cn.
³ State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Exploration and Utilization in Southwest China and Rice Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University at Wenjiang, Chengdu, 611130, China. xwchen88@163.com.

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Targeting a gene regulatory element enhances rice grain yield by decoupling panicle number and size.
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