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Acta Horticulturae Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (6): 1215-1229.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2022-0339

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Construction and Application of a CRISPR/Cas9 System for Multiplex Gene Editing in Tomato

YANG Mengxia, LIU Xiaolin, CAO Xue, WEI Kai, NING Yu, YANG Pei, LI Shanshan, CHEN Ziyue, WANG Xiaoxuan, GUO Yanmei, DU Yongchen, LI Junming, LIU Lei, LI Xin, HUANG Zejun()   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding,Institute of Vegetables and Flowers,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Beijing 100081,China
  • Received:2022-11-29 Revised:2023-02-27 Online:2023-06-25 Published:2023-06-27
  • Contact: * (E-mail:huangzejun@caas.cn

Abstract:

In order to construct a CRISPR/Cas9 system for multiplex gene editing in tomato,Arabidopsis U6 promoters in pKSE401 and pCBC-DT1T2 vectors were replaced with SlU6-2p,SlU6-3p,SlU6-7p,SlU3-5p,SlU3-9p and SlU6-5p,respectively. Accordingly,a binary vector(pMGET),two intermediate vectors(pKC-S2M and pKC-S3M),and three gRNA module vectors(pCBC-S1,pCBC-S2 and pCBC-S3)were constructed. In order to test the system for multiplex gene editing in tomato,multiplex gene editing vectors pMGET-OYGTULC and pMGET-TULCOYG were constructed by aggregating sgRNA expression cassettes containing the target sequences of six tomato fruit trait-related genes Green fleshGF),OvateO),Locule numberLC),SlMYB12Y),TangerineT)and Uniform ripeningU),through PCR amplification,Golden gate cloning and isocaudamer technique,and the editing efficiency of six genes at the same time of the two vectors was 44.00% and 11.76%,respectively. The tomato material was transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying pMGET-OYGTULC vector to obtain two plants with six genes edited. The sequence variations were in the form of single base insertion,single or multiple base deletion and large fragment deletion. In this study,the CRISPR/Cas9 system can be efficiently used for multiplex gene editing in tomato,and stable genetic mutants can be obtained,which can provide a versatile toolbox for basic research and genetic improvement in tomato.

Key words: tomato, CRISPR/Cas9, multiplex gene editing, U3 snRNA gene, isocaudamer technique, GFP marker gene, fruit trait

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