Volume 23, No 10, Oct 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 23 Issue 10, October 2013: 1233-1236

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Targeted mutagenesis in rice using CRISPR-Cas system

Jin Miao^1,*, Dongshu Guo^1,*, Jinzhe Zhang^1,*, Qingpei Huang^1,*, Genji Qin^1,*, Xin Zhang², Jianmin Wan², Hongya Gu¹ and Li-Jia Qu^1,3

¹State Key Laboratory for Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
²National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
³The National Plant Gene Research Center (Beijing), Beijing 100101, China Correspondence: Li-Jia Qu, Tel: +86-10-62753018; Fax: +86-10-62753339(qulj@pku.edu.cn)

Genome editing of model organisms is essential for gene function analysis and is thus critical for human health and agricultural production. The current technologies used for genome editing include ZFN (zinc-finger nuclease)

10.1038/cr.2013.123

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