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SUBMITTER: Naim F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156769 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Naim Fatima F Dugdale Benjamin B Kleidon Jennifer J Brinin Anthony A Shand Kylie K Waterhouse Peter P Dale James J
Transgenic research 20180709 5
Bananas are a staple food source and a major export commodity worldwide. The Cavendish dessert banana is a triploid AAA genome type and accounts for around 47% of global production. Being essentially sterile, genetic modification is perhaps the only pathway available to improve this cultivar. In this study, we used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system to deliver a self-cleaving polycistronic guide RNA (gRNA) designed to target exon 1 of the Phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene in the Cavendish cultivar ...[more]