Hypercompact CRISPR-Cas12j2 (CasΦ) enables genome editing, gene activation, and epigenome editing in plants

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Room 216, Main Building, No. 4, Section 2, North Jianshe Road, Chengdu 610054, China.
• ² Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
• ³ Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
• ⁴ Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. Electronic address: Yiping@umd.edu.
• ⁵ Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Room 216, Main Building, No. 4, Section 2, North Jianshe Road, Chengdu 610054, China. Electronic address: zhangyong916@uestc.edu.cn.