Journal
PLANT CELL REPORTS
Volume 40, Issue 9, Pages 1695-1707Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-021-02723-3
Keywords
CRISPR; Cas9; Phytoene desaturase; Genome editing; Mutation; Rehmannia glutinosa
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- National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [81872950, 82073952]
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This study cloned a PDS gene from Rehmannia glutinosa, achieved gene editing using CRISPR/Cas9 system to generate albino plants, providing a foundation for further research and improvement of R. glutinosa varieties.
Key message Here, we cloned a phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene from Rehmannia glutinosa, and realized RgPDS1 knock out in R. glutinosa resulted in the generation of albino plants. Rehmannia glutinosa is a highly important traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with specific pharmacology and economic value. R. glutinosa is a tetraploid plant, to date, no report has been published on gene editing of R. glutinosa. In this study, we combined the transcriptome database of R. glutinosa and the reported phytoene desaturase (PDS) gene sequences to obtain the PDS gene of R. glutinosa. Then, the PDS gene was used as a marker gene to verify the applicability and gene editing efficiency of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in R. glutinosa. The constructed CRISPR/Cas9 system was mediated by Agrobacterium to genetically transform into R. glutinosa, and successfully regenerated fully albino and chimeric albino plants. The next-generation sequencing (NGS) confirmed that the albino phenotype was indeed caused by RgPDS gene target site editing, and it was found that base deletion was more common than insertion or replacement. Our results revealed that zCas9 has a high editing efficiency on the R. glutinosa genome. This research lays a foundation for further use of gene editing technology to study the molecular functions of genes, create excellent germplasm, accelerate domestication, and improve the yield and quality of R. glutinosa.
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