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Conventional methods for gene function study in Brassica campestris have lots of drawbacks, which greatly hinder the identification of important genes’ functions and molecular breeding. The clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system is a versatile tool for genome editing that has been widely utilized in many plant species and has many advantages over conventional methods for gene function study. However, the application of CRISPR/Cas9 system in B. campestris remains unreported. The pectin-methylesterase genes Bra003491, Bra007665, and Bra014410 were selected as the targets of the CRISPR/Cas9 system. A single-targeting vector and a multitargeting vector were constructed. Different types of mutations were detected in T0 generation through Agrobacterium transformation. The mutation rate of the three designed sgRNA seeds varied from 20 to 56%. Although the majority of T0 mutants were chimeric, four homozygous mutants were identified. Transformation with the multitargeting vector generated one line with a large fragment deletion and one line with mutations in two target genes. Mutations in Bra003491 were stable and inherited by T1 and T2 generations. Nine mutants which did not contain T-DNA insertions were also obtained. No mutations were detected in predicted potential off-target sites. Our work demonstrated that CRISPR/Cas9 system is efficient on single and multiplex genome editing without off-targeting in B. campestris and that the mutations are stable and inheritable. Our results may greatly facilitate gene functional studies and the molecular breeding of B. campestris and other plants.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31471877) and the Grand Science and Technology Special Project of Zhejiang Province (No. 2016C02051-6-1). We thank Prof. Jian-Kang Zhu of Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences for the psgR-Cas9-At plasmid. We thank Tom Lawrenson and Prof. Wendy Harwood of the Crop Transformation Group, John Innes Centre for their suggestions on the Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of B. campestris.
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Xiong, X., Liu, W., Jiang, J. et al. Efficient genome editing of Brassica campestris based on the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Mol Genet Genomics 294, 1251–1261 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-019-01564-w
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