Hongtao Xie, Fei Su, Qingfeng Niu, Leping Geng, Xuesong Cao, Minglei Song, Jinsong Dong, Zai Zheng, Rui Guo, Yang Zhang, Yuanwei Deng, Zhanbo Ji, Kang Pang, Jian-Kang Zhu, Jianhua Zhu
Yield improvement has long been an important task for soybean breeding in the world in order to meet the increasing demand for food and animal feed. miR396 genes have been shown to negatively regulate grain size in rice, but whether miR396 family members may function in a similar manner in soybean is unknown. Here, we generated eight soybean mutants harboring different combinations of homozygous mutations in the six soybean miR396 genes through genome editing with clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated nuclease (Cas)12SF01 in the elite soybean cultivar Zhonghuang 302 (ZH302)...
April 10, 2024: Journal of Integrative Plant Biology