Engineering Non-transgenic Gynoecious Cucumber Using an Improved Transformation Protocol and Optimized CRISPR/Cas9
Bowen Hu1, Dawei Li2, Xin Liu3
1Key Laboratory of Genome Analysis of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China; Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Liege 4000, Belgium.
Molecular Plant
|September 19, 2017
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