Improvement of wheat drought tolerance through editing of <i>TaATX4</i> by CRISPR/Cas9

Zhongxue Wang; Yifang Zhang; Zhensheng Kang; Hude Mao

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2023.10.001

Volume 50 Issue 11

Nov. 2023

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Improvement of wheat drought tolerance through editing of TaATX4 by CRISPR/Cas9

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2023.10.001

1. State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China;
3. Yangling Seed Industry Innovation Center, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China;
4. State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China

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This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFD1200202), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32272044), and Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Shaanxi Province (2023-JC-JQ-20).

Received Date: 2023-07-20
Accepted Date: 2023-10-05
Rev Recd Date: 2023-10-03
Publish Date: 2023-10-16

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