Genome editing of DWARF and SELF-PRUNING rapidly confers traits suitable for plant factories while retaining useful traits in tomato.

ABSTRACT: Plant factories with artificial light are less affected than open-air areas to environmental factors in crop cultivation and are attracting attention as one of the solutions to the world's food problems. However, the cost of cultivation in plant factories is higher than open-air cultivation, and currently, profitable factory-grown crop varieties are limited to those that are small or have a short growing period. Tomatoes are one of the main crops consumed around the world, but due to their large plant height and width, they are not yet suitable for mass production in plant factories. In this study, the DWARF (D) and SELF-PRUNING (SP) genes of the GABA hyperaccumulating tomato variety #87-17 were genome-edited by the CRISPR-Cas9 method to produce dwarf tomato pla

SUBMITTER: Nagamine A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11375428 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature