TY - JOUR
T1 - Carotenoid Biofortification of Crops in the CRISPR Era
AU - Zheng, Xiongjie
AU - Kuijer, Hendrik N.J.
AU - Al-Babili, Salim
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-11-24
Acknowledgements: We thank Dr Jianing Mi for valuable discussions and want to apologize to colleagues whose work could not be discussed and cited here due to space limitations. No conflict of interest declared. This work was supported by baseline funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
PY - 2020/12/29
Y1 - 2020/12/29
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666788
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167779920303279
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098669064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.12.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 33384170
SN - 0167-7799
VL - 39
SP - 857
EP - 860
JO - Trends in Biotechnology
JF - Trends in Biotechnology
IS - 9
ER -
