CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing of Bs5 and Bs5L in tomato leads to resistance against Xanthomonas

Plant Biotechnol J. 2024 Oct;22(10):2785-2787. doi: 10.1111/pbi.14404. Epub 2024 Jul 12.

Arturo Ortega^{1

2

3}, Kyungyong Seong², Alex Schultink⁴, Daniela Paula de Toledo Thomazella^{2

3}, Eunyoung Seo^{2

3}, Elaine Zhang³, Julie Pham³, Myeong-Je Cho³, Douglas Dahlbeck^{2

3}, Jacqueline Warren³, Gerald V Minsavage⁵, Jeffrey B Jones⁵, Edgar Sierra-Orozco⁶, Samuel F Hutton⁶, Brian Staskawicz^{2

5}

¹ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
² Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
³ Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁴ Fortiphyte Inc., Richmond, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁶ Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Wimauma, Florida, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Bs5; CRISPR/Cas9 technology; bacterial spot disease; crop engineering; disease resistance.

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