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A graft that crafts nontransgenic and genome-edited plants
Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan1, Muhammad Qasim Aslam1, Rubab Zahra Naqvi1
1Agricultural Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Abstract:
Grafting in plants facilitates the transmission of biomolecules across the union formation. Recently, Yang et al. demonstrated that inter- and intraspecific grafting in plants can be exploited for trafficking tRNA-tagged mobile reagents of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas system from the transgenic rootstock to wild-type scion for genetic improvement in plants through targeted mutagenesis.
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