National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.
State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Trends Plant Sci. 2020 May;25(5):424-427. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.02.012. Epub 2020 Mar 10.
Crop pathologists and breeders are pursuing not only mechanistic understanding of plant-pathogen interactions but also engineering durable and broad-spectrum disease-resistant cultivars. Both goals are achieved in three recent studies by stacking editing of regulatory elements within promoters of susceptibility genes for blight disease in rice.
作物病理学家和培育者不仅在追求对植物-病原体相互作用的机制理解，还在努力设计持久和广谱的抗病品种。在最近的三项研究中，通过在水稻枯萎病易感基因启动子内编辑调控元件，实现了这两个目标。
