Type
ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) DivisionCenter for Desert Agriculture
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, Center for Desert Agriculture, the BioActives Laboratory, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Plant Science
Date
2020-12-29Online Publication Date
2020-12-29Print Publication Date
2021-09Embargo End Date
2021-12-29Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666788
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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.Citation
Zheng, X., Kuijer, H. N. J., & Al-Babili, S. (2020). Carotenoid Biofortification of Crops in the CRISPR Era. Trends in Biotechnology. doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.12.003Sponsors
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.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Trends in BiotechnologyAdditional Links
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167779920303279ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.12.003