ESTABLISHING EFFICIENT PROTOPLAST GENOME EDITING SYSTEMS USING CRISPR/CAS9 FOR MAIZE BREEDING AND IMPROVEMENT

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dc.contributor.advisor Du, Zhi-Yan (Rock)
dc.contributor.author Higa, Lauren Akemi
dc.contributor.department Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-02T23:41:54Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-02T23:41:54Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.description.degree M.S.
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10125/108347
dc.subject Molecular biology
dc.subject Genetics
dc.subject Plant sciences
dc.subject Cas9
dc.subject CRISPR
dc.subject flowering time
dc.subject gene editing
dc.subject maize
dc.subject protoplasts
dc.title ESTABLISHING EFFICIENT PROTOPLAST GENOME EDITING SYSTEMS USING CRISPR/CAS9 FOR MAIZE BREEDING AND IMPROVEMENT
dc.type Thesis
dcterms.abstract Amid the growing concerns over global food security, the use of gene editing technology in crop improvement is gaining traction as a promising solution. While this technology has been widely used to modify specific traits in crops, its potential to overcome breeding barriers remains largely unexplored. It is extremely challenging to crossbreed tropical maize and temperate maize under the long-day photoperiod of a temperate environment due to their differences in flowering time. This breeding barrier prevents the integration of tropical maize into temperate breeding programs, greatly limiting genetic diversity. Leveraging the power of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, this study is ultimately focused on three regulators of flowering time, ZmCCT9, ZmCCT10, and ZmRap2.7, to induce earlier flowering in tropical maize, aligning its timing with temperate maize. Since traditional plant transformation techniques are time-consuming and labor-intensive, this study has developed a maize protoplast CRISPR/Cas9 system to rapidly validate the activity of guide RNAs. Additionally, nine gRNAs targeting ZmCCT9, ZmCCT10, and ZmRap2.7 were designed, and their editing efficiencies were evaluated using the protoplast gene editing system.
dcterms.extent 70 pages
dcterms.language en
dcterms.publisher University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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