Engineering null mutants in ZmFER1 confers resistance to ear rot caused by Fusarium verticillioides in maize

Plant Biotechnol J. 2022 Nov;20(11):2045-2047. doi: 10.1111/pbi.13914. Epub 2022 Sep 30.

Authors

Changlin Liu^#^{1

2}, Ming Kong^#¹, Jinjie Zhu¹, Xiantao Qi¹, Canxing Duan¹, Chuanxiao Xie^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Beijing, China.
² Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Lab, Sanya, China.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: ZmFER1; CRISPR/Cas9; Fusarium ear rot; maize.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Disease Resistance / genetics
Fusarium*
Plant Diseases / genetics
Zea mays* / genetics

Supplementary concepts

Fusarium verticillioides