Boosting plant immunity with CRISPR/Cas

Angela Chaparro-Garcia; Sophien Kamoun; Vladimir Nekrasov

doi:10.1186/s13059-015-0829-4

Boosting plant immunity with CRISPR/Cas

Angela Chaparro-Garcia
, Sophien Kamoun
, Vladimir Nekrasov

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CRISPR/Cas has recently been transferred to plants to make them resistant to geminiviruses, a damaging family of DNA viruses. We discuss the potential and the limitations of this method.See related Research: http://www.genomebiology.com/2015/16/1/238.

Original language	English
Article number	254
Journal	Genome Biology
Volume	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0829-4
Publication status	Published - 19 Nov 2015

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Sophien Kamoun
- S.Kamounuea.acuk
- The Sainsbury Laboratory - Professor of Biology (TSL)
- Plant Sciences - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching and Research (NBI)

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