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Cassava is a major staple crop in tropical regions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet its productivity remains constrained by genetic and agronomic limitations. A major bottleneck in cassava breeding is the difficulty of accurately phenotyping agronomic traits under field conditions using conventional, labor-intensive methods. Here, we evaluated the potential of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV)-based phenotyping to quantify canopy growth traits and assess their genetic relevance under...
Multiple approaches for CRISPR-based targeting of DNA methylation to promoters of bacterial and viral susceptibility genes in cassava
Targeted epigenetic modifications of specific gene regulatory regions have the potential to confer beneficial traits for crop improvement. Two recently developed CRISPR/Cas9-based epigenome editing tools were tested in transgenic cassava to target cytosine methylation to the promoter region of MeSWEET10a, a necessary gene for infection by the Cassava bacterial blight pathogen, Xanthomonas phaseoli pv. manihotis. The two systems leverage unique methyltransferases, and each induced distinct...
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