CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genome editing of drought and salt tolerance (OsDST) gene in indica mega rice cultivar MTU1010.

ABSTRACT: Development of abiotic stress tolerant rice cultivars is necessary for sustainable rice production under the scenario of global climate change, dwindling fresh water resources and increase in salt affected areas. Several genes from rice have been functionally validated by using EMS mutants and transgenics. Often, many of these desirable alleles are not available indica rice which is mainly cultivated, and where available, introgression of these alleles into elite cultivars is a time and labour intensive process, in addition to the potential introgression of non-desirable genes due to linkage. CRISPR-Cas technology helps development of elite cultivars with desirable alleles by precision gene editing. Hence, this study was carried out to create mutant alleles of drought and salt to

SUBMITTER: Santosh Kumar VV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7266915 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature