Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (10): 1982-1990.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.10.22

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Application progress of gene editing techniques in rice disease-resistant genes and breeding research

TAN Xiaojing1,2(), WANG Zhonghua1, WU Yueyan1, ZHENG Ersong2, XU Rumeng2, CHEN Jianping2, WANG Xuming2,*(), YAN Chengqi1,3,*()   

  1. 1. Zhejiang Wan Li University, Ningbo 315100, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Product Quality Safety Hazard Factors and Risk Prevention, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310021,China
    3. Ningbo Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ningbo 315100,China
  • Received:2020-06-10 Online:2021-10-25 Published:2021-11-02
  • Contact: WANG Xuming,YAN Chengqi

Abstract:

Rice is one of the important food crops in China, and it is also the main food source for more than 3 billion people in the world. In recent decades, crop disease caused by various plant pathogens, climate change and other environmental problems seriously threaten global food security. There is an urgent need for rice plants with high yield and disease resistance, but the traditional breeding methods are complicated and inefficient. On the other hand, the numerous emerging gene editing techniques, such as CRISPR, zinc-finger nuclease (ZFN), transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN), base editing (BE) and prime editing (PE), have shown great potential to accelerate rice breeding with increased yield, quality and disease resistance. They are also useful tools of fundamental research of gene function. In this review, we summarized the principles and developments of gene editing technologies, and their application progresses in rice disease resistance genes mining and breeding. Finally, we discussed the prospective applications of gene editing technologies in rice breeding for disease resistance.

Key words: gene editing, rice, CRISPR system, breeding research

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