Research Base, Anyang Institute of Technology, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Anyang, Henan 455000, China.
Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
Trends Plant Sci. 2021 Mar;26(3):199-201. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.12.003. Epub 2020 Dec 21.
Arabidopsis and rice are major models for C3 plants, but we still lack a model for C4 plants. Recently, Yang and coworkers developed foxtail millet as a C4 plant model; with the rapid development of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas technology, this will open a new era for plant functional studies and crop improvement.
拟南芥和水稻是 C3 植物的主要模式生物,但我们仍然缺乏 C4 植物的模式生物。最近,Yang 及其同事将谷子(粟)发展为 C4 植物模型;随着 CRISPR/Cas 技术的快速发展,这将为植物功能研究和作物改良开辟一个新时代。