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SUBMITTER: Ji X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6238286 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ji Xiang X Si Xiaomin X Zhang Yi Y Zhang Huawei H Zhang Feng F Gao Caixia C
Genome biology 20181115 1
The CRISPR/Cas9 system has recently been engineered to confer resistance to geminiviruses in plants. However, we show here that the usefulness of this antiviral strategy is undermined by off-target effects identified by deep sequencing in Arabidopsis. We construct two virus-inducible CRISPR/Cas9 vectors that efficiently inhibit beet severe curly top virus (BSCTV) accumulation in both transient assays (Nicotiana benthamiana) and transgenic lines (Arabidopsis). Deep sequencing detects no off-targe ...[more]