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As recent advances in gene editing technologies have enabled rapid and accurate modification of target genes, new varieties are being developed through the application of gene editing technologies in various crop species. In particular, the CRISPR/Cas9 system has become a tool of choice for gene editing because it is much more economical and efficient than previous tools such as ZFN and TALEN, and is being actively used to improve various breeding traits, including biotic and abiotic stress tolerance to overcome the limitations of conventional plant breeding technologies. In this review, we retrieved 210 papers describing the utilization of CRISPR/Cas9 in rice published between 2013 and 2021 and classified them according to the field of study and traits of interest. Further case studies were conducted on 21 and 12 research papers that reported the enhancement of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, respectively. This demonstrated that CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing can be highly effective in improving resistance to bacterial (bacterial leaf blight and bacterial leaf streak), fungal (blast, sheath blight), and viral (rice tungro spherical virus, rice black streak virus) diseases as well as various abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, cold, and heat, in many cases, without diminishing important agronomic traits. As recent technological advances have begun to overcome the major limitations of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, such as low HDR efficiency and off-target effects, it is expected that more research on gene function and cultivar development will adopt CRISPR/Cas9 as a major gene editing tool in the future. To effectively apply such innovative technologies in crop improvement, much effort is required to establish more reasonable and detailed policies for regulating crops developed through new breeding technologies.
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Many studies concerning breeding maize varieties are in progress in Korea and other countries. Double haploid technology is widely used for the development of commercial maize varieties worldwide, and has also been utilized in Korea since its introduction by the Maize Research Institute, Gangwondo. We performed a study to improve the efficiency of selecting haploid maize seeds using fluorescence imaging. It was verified that anthocyanin produced by the expression of
Fast and accurate selection is essential for breeding to cope with rapid climate changes and a steeply increasing population. Consequently, technologies for high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) are emerging. These technologies, unlike conventional phenotyping methods, enable us to evaluate agronomic traits in a fast and massive manner. Thus, the HTP facility was built to acquire and analyze crop images using RGB sensors at the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Republic of Korea. By testing various conditions to acquire images, we determined the conditions for phenotyping using the RGB sensor as follows: exposure 30,000 ms, gamma 75, and gain 100 using LED lights in a blue background. Based on this condition, images from 96 individual plants of rice Dongjin cultivar were obtained every week to measure plant height and shoot area, which are directly associated with yield. The results obtained from the image analysis were compared with the manually collected results. The r2 value between the projected plant height obtained from image analysis and the plant height obtained from manual measurement was 0.989. Furthermore, the r2 value between the projected shoot area obtained from image analysis and the shoot area obtained from manual measurement was 0.981. These results show that image analysis is highly reliable and can be used for crop phenotyping. Therefore, we expect that the new method we developed will be used for breeding in the near future.
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A dwarf mutant rice line was selected from an Ac/Ds insertion mutant population and named
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Perilla is an oilseed crop cultivated in Korea since ancient times. Due to the high α-linolenic acid content in perilla, perilla seed oil can easily become rancid. α-Linolenic acid is synthesized by two enzymes, endoplasmic reticulum-localized Δ15 desaturase (FAD3) and chloroplast-localized Δ15 desaturase (FAD7) in vivo. In order to lower the α-linolenic acid content of the seed oil without disturbing plant growth, we tried to suppress the expression of only the
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Gayabyeo, a Tongil-type rice variety, has been known to be resistant to the brown planthopper (BPH) in Korea. For genetic analysis of BPH resistance of Gayabyeo, we developed an F2 and F3 population derived from a cross between Gayabyeo and Taebaegbyeo which is a Tongil-type BPH susceptible rice variety. Based on the previously detected 284,501 putative SNPs between Gayabyeo and Taebaegbyeo, 99 cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences (CAPS) markers were developed, and they have been used for genotyping 180 F2 plants. By comparison of resequencing data of Gayabyeo and the sequences of already reported BPH resistance genes (
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