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Targeted mutagenesis by CRISPR/Cas9 system in the model legume Medicago truncatula

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Prof. Caixia Gao for kindly providing vectors with sgRNA scaffold and Cas9. This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 2016YFD0101001) to Hao Lin and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31570309) to Lifang Niu.

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  1. Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

    Yingying Meng, Yaling Hou, Hui Wang, Lifang Niu & Hao Lin

  2. Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

    Ronghuan Ji & Bin Liu

  3. Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, 73401, USA

    Jiangqi Wen

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Meng, Y., Hou, Y., Wang, H. et al. Targeted mutagenesis by CRISPR/Cas9 system in the model legume Medicago truncatula . Plant Cell Rep 36, 371–374 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-016-2069-9

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