King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, Center for Desert Agriculture, the BioActives Laboratory, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, Center for Desert Agriculture, the BioActives Laboratory, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Trends Biotechnol. 2021 Sep;39(9):857-860. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.12.003. Epub 2020 Dec 29.
Carotenoids are micronutrients important for human health. The continuous improvements in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based genome-editing techniques make rapid, DNA/transgene-free and targeted multiplex genetic modification a reality, thus promising to accelerate the breeding and generation of 'golden' staple crops. We discuss here the progress and future prospects of CRISPR/Cas9 applications for carotenoid biofortification.
类胡萝卜素是对人类健康很重要的微量营养素。基于簇状规律间隔短回文重复序列(CRISPR)的基因组编辑技术的不断改进,使得快速、无 DNA/转基因和靶向的多重遗传修饰成为现实,从而有望加速“金色”主要农作物的培育和产生。我们在这里讨论了 CRISPR/Cas9 应用于类胡萝卜素生物强化的进展和未来前景。