期刊
PLANT CELL REPORTS
卷 41, 期 4, 页码 947-960出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-022-02830-9
关键词
Genome editing; Cytosine base editor; Transgene-free; Protoplast; CRISPR/Cas9; Daucus carota
资金
- AFRI Exploratory Research Program from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States of America [1021280, 12854173]
This study presents a method for efficiently producing transgene-free, gene-edited carrot plants. The approach involves using PEG-mediated transformation and protoplast culture to induce targeted mutations, resulting in a large number of transgene-free, gene-edited carrot plants.
We report here a method for producing transgene-free, gene-edited carrot (Daucus carota subs. sativus) plants. With this approach, PEG-mediated transformation is used to transiently express a cytosine base editor and a guide RNA in protoplasts to induce targeted mutations in the carrot genome. These protoplasts are then cultured under conditions that lead to the production of somatic embryos which subsequently develop into carrot plants. For this study, we used the Centromere-Specific Histone H3 (CENH3) gene as a target for evaluating the efficiency with which regenerated, edited plants could be produced. After validating sgRNA performance and protoplast transformation efficiency using transient assays, we performed two independent editing experiments using sgRNAs targeting different locations within CENH3. In the first experiment, we analyzed 184 regenerated plants and found that 22 of them (11.9%) carried targeted mutations within CENH3, while in the second experiment, 28 out of 190 (14.7%) plants had mutations in CENH3. Of the 50 edited carrot lines that we analyzed, 43 were homozygous or bi-allelic for mutations in CENH3. No evidence of the base editor expression plasmid was found in the edited lines tested, indicating that this approach is able to produce transgene-free, gene-edited lines. The protocol that we describe provides an efficient method for easily generating large numbers of transgene-free, gene-edited carrot plants.
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