Jiang Daohong's team obtained crops with high resistance to two fungal diseases through gene editing technology

Nanhu News Network (correspondent Zhang Xuekun) Recently, the scientific research team of our school obtained crops with high resistance to two fungal diseases through gene editing technology

In the farmland environment, crops often respond to the infection of multiple pathogens at the same time.

QCR8 is a conserved subunit of the cytochrome b-c1 complex in the respiratory chain.

Figure T2 BnQCR8 mutant resistance to sclerotinia and gray mold (a and b) and adult stage phenotype (c)

The research starts from the pathogenic genes of pathogenic bacteria, screens target genes in crops, and cultivates new disease-resistant varieties through gene editing, which provides new research ideas for improving the broad-spectrum disease resistance of plants

The State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of our school, the Key Laboratory of Crop Disease Monitoring and Safety Control of Hubei Province, and the doctoral student Zhang Xuekun of the School of Plant Science and Technology are the first author of the paper, and Professor Jiang Daohong is the corresponding author of the paper

Reviewer: Xie Jiatao

Link to the paper : https://onlinelibrary.