Journal
PLANT CELL REPORTS
Volume 38, Issue 9, Pages 1065-1080Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-019-02426-w
Keywords
Genome editing; CRISPR-Cas9; Cytidine base editor; Potato; GBSS; HRM
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- INRA UMR IGEPP
- Investissement d'Avenir program of the French National Agency of Research [ANR-11-BTBR-0001_GENIUS]
- CIFRE PhD grant from SYNGENTA
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-11-BTBR-0001] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Key Message The StGBSSI gene was successfully and precisely edited in the tetraploid potato using gene and base-editing strategies, leading to plants with impaired amylose biosynthesis. Genome editing has recently become a method of choice for basic research and functional genomics, and holds great potential for molecular plant-breeding applications. The powerful CRISPR-Cas9 system that typically produces double-strand DNA breaks is mainly used to generate knockout mutants. Recently, the development of base editors has broadened the scope of genome editing, allowing precise and efficient nucleotide substitutions. In this study, we produced mutants in two cultivated elite cultivars of the tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum) using stable or transient expression of the CRISPR-Cas9 components to knock out the amylose-producing StGBSSI gene. We set up a rapid, highly sensitive and cost-effective screening strategy based on high-resolution melting analysis followed by direct Sanger sequencing and trace chromatogram analysis. Most mutations consisted of small indels, but unwanted insertions of plasmid DNA were also observed. We successfully created tetra-allelic mutants with impaired amylose biosynthesis, confirming the loss of function of the StGBSSI protein. The second main objective of this work was to demonstrate the proof of concept of CRISPR-Cas9 base editing in the tetraploid potato by targeting two loci encoding catalytic motifs of the StGBSSI enzyme. Using a cytidine base editor (CBE), we efficiently and precisely induced DNA substitutions in the KTGGL-encoding locus, leading to discrete variation in the amino acid sequence and generating a loss-of-function allele. The successful application of base editing in the tetraploid potato opens up new avenues for genome engineering in this species.
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