Efficient and transgene-free genome editing in banana using a REG-2 promoter-driven gene-deletion system

Mol Hortic. 2023 Aug 23;3(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s43897-023-00065-0.

Chunhua Hu^#¹, Fan Liu^#^{1

2}, Ou Sheng¹, Qiaosong Yang¹, Tongxin Dou¹, Tao Dong¹, Chunyu Li¹, Huijun Gao¹, Weidi He¹, Siwen Liu¹, Guiming Deng¹, Ganjun Yi^{3

4}, Fangcheng Bi^{5

6}

¹ Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Tree Research, Guangzhou, China.
² College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
³ Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Tree Research, Guangzhou, China. yiganjun@vip.163.com.
⁴ Maoming Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Maoming, China. yiganjun@vip.163.com.
⁵ Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of South Subtropical Fruit Biology and Genetic Resource Utilization (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Tree Research, Guangzhou, China. bifangcheng@gdaas.cn.
⁶ Maoming Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Maoming, China. bifangcheng@gdaas.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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