A CRISPR/Cas9-based genome-editing system for yam (Dioscorea spp.)

Plant Biotechnol J. 2021 Apr;19(4):645-647. doi: 10.1111/pbi.13515. Epub 2020 Dec 13.

Authors

Easter D Syombua^{1

2}, Zhengzhi Zhang³, Jaindra N Tripathi¹, Valentine O Ntui¹, Minjeong Kang⁴, Obiero O George², Nguu K Edward⁵, Kan Wang⁴, Bing Yang^{3

6}, Leena Tripathi¹

Affiliations

¹ International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya.
² Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
³ Division of Plant Sciences, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
⁴ Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
⁵ Department of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: DrPDS; CRISPR/Cas9; Dioscorea spp.; Yam; genome-editing.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

CRISPR-Cas Systems / genetics
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Dioscorea* / genetics
Gene Editing