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GENOME EDITING

Editing plant genes one base at a time

A new class of gene-editing reagents precisely alters plant genomes without creating a DNA double strand break.

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Fig. 1: Base editing.

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Shan, Q., Voytas, D.F. Editing plant genes one base at a time. Nature Plants 4, 412–413 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0177-y

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