Fixation of Hybrid Vigor in Rice: Synthetic Apomixis Generated by Genome Editing

Overview

Journal aBIOTECH

Publisher Springer

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2022 Oct 28

PMID 36305008

Authors

Kejian Wang

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Abstract

Apomixis is an asexual reproduction process in which clonal seeds are formed without meiosis and fertilization. Because of its potential in permanently preserving hybrid vigor, apomixis has attracted a great deal of interests from plant biologists and the seed industry. However, despite of decades of effort, introgression of apomixis traits from wild relatives into major crops has remained unsuccessful. Therefore, synthetic apomixis has been proposed as an alternative to fix hybrid vigor. In this article, I present the development of the (), which turns meiosis into mitosis and leads to the production of clonal gametes. Apomixis-like clonal seeds are generated when plants are crossed to special genome elimination lines, which contain an altered centromere-specific histone 3 (CENH3). Furthermore, induction of haploid plants from egg cells can be achieved by either egg cell-specific expression of (), or disruption of () using CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology. Synthetic apomixis is established and clonal seeds are produced by simultaneous engineering with altering expression or disruption. Finally, I discuss how to further improve the apomixis strategy and its applications in crop breeding.

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