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. 2023 Nov;48(11):917-919.
doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2023.07.005. Epub 2023 Jul 28.

CRISPR/Cas9 boosts wheat yield by reducing brassinosteroid signaling

Sunny Ahmar  1 , Damian Gruszka  2
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CRISPR/Cas9 boosts wheat yield by reducing brassinosteroid signaling

Sunny Ahmar et al. Trends Biochem Sci. 2023 Nov.

Abstract

A modern green revolution is needed to ensure global food security. Recently, Song et al. reported a new strategy to create high-yielding, semi-dwarf wheat varieties with improved nitrogen-use efficiency by inhibiting brassinosteroid (BR) signaling through clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein9 (Cas9)-mediated knockout of the ZnF-B gene encoding a zinc-finger RING-type E3 ligase.

Keywords: CRISPR/Cas9; brassinosteroid; nitrogen-use efficiency; semi-dwarfism; wheat; yield.

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