Enhancing the efficiency of nuclease-based prime editing in rice with the Tf1 reverse transcriptase

Guigen Ma1,2, Hao Xu1,2, Sujie Zhang2,3

  • 1Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies (Hainan), National Nanfan Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, 572024, China.

Abiotech
|April 6, 2026
PubMed
Summary

Researchers optimized a prime editing system for plant genome engineering. Replacing a key enzyme with Tf1 reverse transcriptase variants significantly boosted the efficiency of inserting DNA tags, aiding crop improvement.