Heritable base-editing in Arabidopsis using RNA viral vectors

Plant Physiol. 2022 Aug 1;189(4):1920-1924. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiac206.

Degao Liu^{1

2}, Shuya Xuan¹, Lynn E Prichard^{1

2}, Lilee I Donahue^{1

2}, Changtian Pan³, Ugrappa Nagalakshmi⁴, Evan E Ellison^{1

2}, Colby G Starker^{1

2}, Savithramma P Dinesh-Kumar⁴, Yiping Qi³, Daniel F Voytas^{1

2}

¹ Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.
² Center for Precision Plant Genomics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.
³ Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
⁴ Department of Plant Biology and The Genome Center, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Abstract

Heritable base-editing using a viral delivery system enables high-throughput functional analysis of genes in Arabidopsis.