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Breeding by Design for Functional Rice with Genome Editing Technologies
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A CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing platform for the rice leaffolder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis
Juncheng Yan1,2, Bingpeng Liu1, Hui Lu1
1State Key Laboratory of Plant Trait Design, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Insect Science
|September 11, 2026
Abstract:
A CRISPR/Cas9 toolkit was established for the rice leaffolder (Cnaphalocrocis medinalis) using entirely endogenous regulatory elements. An all-in-one plasmid was constructed containing an IE1-EGFP marker, a CmU6 promoter driven sgRNA targeting Cmebony, and a Cmactin5C promoter driven Cas9. This platform provides a system for functional genomics in this pest.
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