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The repositorium is a searchable database that provides data on relevant articles from journals, company web pages and web pages of governmental agencies about studies/applications of genome-editing in model plants and agricultural crops in the period January 1996 to May 2018. Search options are article type, technique, plant, traits or free text. The repositorium is based on the systematic map of Dominik Modrzejewski et al., published in the journal environmental evidence. (Download article PDF).

Further analysis of barley MORC1 using a highly efficient RNA-guided Cas9 gene-editing system


Typ / Jahr

Journal Article / 2018

Autoren

Kumar, Neelendra; Galli, Matteo; Ordon, Jana; Stuttmann, Johannes; Kogel, Karl-Heinz; Imani, Jafargholi

Abstract

Microrchidia (MORC) proteins comprise a family of proteins that have been identified in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. They are defined by two hallmark domains: a GHKL-type ATPase and an S5-fold. In plants, MORC proteins were first discovered in a genetic screen for Arabidopsis thaliana mutants compromised for resistance to a viral pathogen. Subsequent studies expanded their role in plant immunity and revealed their involvement in gene silencing and genome stabilization. Little is known about the role of MORC proteins of cereals, especially because knockout (KO) mutants were not available and assessment of loss of function relied only on RNAi strategies, which were arguable, given that MORC proteins in itself are influencing gene silencing. Here, we used a Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9)-mediated KO strategy to functionally study HvMORC1, one of the current seven MORC members of barley. Using a novel barley RNA Pol III-dependent U3 small nuclear RNA (snRNA) promoter to drive expression of the synthetic single guide RNA (sgRNA), we achieved a very high mutation frequency in HvMORC1. High frequencies of mutations were detectable by target sequencing in the callus, the T0 generation (77%) and T1 generation (70%–100%), which constitutes an important improvement of the gene-editing technology in cereals. Corroborating and extending earlier findings, SpCas9-edited hvmorc1-KO barley, in clear contrast to Arabidopsis atmorc1 mutants, had a distinct phenotype of increased disease resistance to fungal pathogens, while morc1 mutants of either plant showed de-repressed expression of transposable elements (TEs), substantiating that plant MORC proteins contribute to genome stabilization in monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants.

Keywords
Barley; Blumeria; CRISPR/Cas9; editing; Fusarium.; gene-; MORC1; rice; Wheat
Periodical
Plant Biotechnol J (Plant Biotechnology Journal)
Periodical Number
Page range
273
Volume
204
DOI
10.1111/pbi.12924

Techniques

ID Corresponding Author
Country
Plant Species GE Technique
Sequence Identifier
Trait
Type of Alteration
Progress in Research
Key Topic
718 Kogel, Karl-Heinz; Jafargholi Imani, Jafargholi
Germany
Hordeum vulgare CRISPR/Cas9
MORC1
Contribution to genome stabilization, eg. Increased resistance to fungal pathogens
SDN1
Basic research
Basic research