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Table 1 Major HGT studies in monocots

From: Challenges and Perspectives in Homology-Directed Gene Targeting in Monocot Plants

No.

Gene/Allele

Monocot

HDR tool

Selection marker

HDR allele-associated marker

Homologous donor length (bp) (5′ arm + 3′ arm)

Gene targeting efficiency

Reference

 

Gene targeting without targeted DSBs

1

waxy (Granule-Bound Starch Synthase gene knockout)

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

6300 + 6800

0.94% (per total surviving calli)

Terada et al. 2002

 

2

Acetolactate synthase (ALS) (W548 L and S627I)

rice

T-DNA

Bispyrobac-sodium (BS) herbicide (positive)

BS herbicide (positive)

8092

~ 3% (per total surviving calli)

Endo et al. 2007

 

3

Alcohol dehydrogenase2 (Adh2)

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

6200 + 6000

1.9% (per total surviving calli)

Terada et al. 2007

 

4

GUS-HptII tagging

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

3100 + 3100

~ 5.3% (per total surviving calli)

Yamauchi et al. 2009

 
 

α-subunit of anthranilate synthase gene (OASA2)

rice

T-DNA

Trp-analog 5MT (positive)

Trp-analog 5MT (positive)

7000 in total

0.34% (per total surviving calli)

Saika et al. 2011

 

5

Domains Rearranged Methylase 2 (OsDRM2), 70 bp targeted deletion

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

3000 + 3100

1.9% (per total surviving calli)

Moritoh et al. 2012

 

OsDRM2, 3000 bp targeted deletion

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

3000 + 3000

0.4% (per total surviving calli)

 

6

Repressor Of Silencing 1a (ROS1a)

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

3000 + 3000

1.1% (per total surviving calli)

Ono et al. 2012

 

7

waxy

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

6800 + 5700

1.5% (per total surviving calli)

Ozawa et al. 2012

 

β1,2-Xylosyltransferase (XylT)

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative)

HptII (positive)

5500 + 5600

1.8% (per total surviving calli)

 

8

OsRac1

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative), Cre/loxP-based removal of HptII

HptII (positive), Cre/loxP-based removal of HptII

3000 + 3000

~ 5.3% (per total surviving calli)

Dang et al. 2013

 

Caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (CAOMT)

rice

T-DNA

HptII (positive)/CodA (negative)

HptII (positive)

3700 + 6000

~ 12.1% (per total surviving calli)

Osakabe et al. 2014

 

9

ALS (W548 L and S627I)

rice

T-DNA

BS herbicide (positive) and HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative), piggyBac-based removal of HptII

BS herbicide (positive) and HptII (positive), piggyBac-based removal of HptII

8092

~ 6% (per total hygromycin-resistant calli)

Nishizawa-Yokoi et al. 2015a

 

cleistogamy 1 (Oscly1)

rice

T-DNA

BS herbicide (positive) and HptII (positive)/DT-A (negative), piggyBac-based removal of HptII

BS herbicide (positive) and HptII (positive), piggyBac-based removal of HptII

6000

~ 0.078%

 

10

waxy

rice

T-DNA

NptII (positive)/RNAi mediated anti-NptII (negative)

NptII (positive)

5000 + 5100

0.26% (per total surviving calli)

Nishizawa-Yokoi et al. 2015b

 

Glyoxalase I (OsGlb33)

rice

T-DNA

NptII (positive)/RNAi mediated anti-NptII (negative)

NptII (positive)

5400 + 6200

0.21% (per total surviving calli)

 

Targeted DSB-based gene targeting

Site-specific Nuclease

11

Inositol-1,3,4,5,6-pentakisphosphate 2-kinase (IPK) and phosphinothricin acetyltransferase (PAT)

Maize

Silicon carbide whiskers-mediated transformation

Bialaphos herbicide (positive)

Bialaphos herbicide (positive)

815 + 815

?

Shukla et al. 2009

Meganucleases

12

Synthetic DNA

Maize

T-DNA

NptII and GFP (positive)

NptII and GFP (positive)

2992 + 1200

0.085% (True event per immature embryo)

Ayar et al. 2013

ZFNs

OsPDS

rice

Bombardment

Transient

Transient

23 + 37 (single stranded oligos)

6.9% (2/29 clones of PCR product, restriction digestion for enrichment of HDR products

Shan et al. 2013

CRISPR/Cas9

13

Pre-intergrated GFP

Barley

Bombardment

GFP/YFP fluorescence

GFP/YFP fluorescence

196 + 334

2–3% (per total surviving calli)

Budhagatapalli et al. 2015

TALENs

14

Acetolactate synthase (ALS) genes (ALS1 and ALS2)

Maize

Bombardment

Chlorsulfuron and bialaphos (positive selection of ALS HDR events).

bialaphos (positive selection of ALS HDR events).

749 dsDNA donor and 127 single stranded oligo donor

0.2% (dsDNA donor) and 0.35% (ssDNA donors)

Svitashev et al. 2015

CRISPR/Cas9

Upstream of the LIGULELESS1 (LIG1) gene

Bialaphos (positive)

Bialaphos (positive)

1099 + 1035

0.7% (meganulease) and 2.5–4.1 (CRISPR/Cas9)

Meganuclease and CRISPR/Cas9

15

OsALS (W548 L and S627I)

rice

Bombardment

BS herbicide (positive)

BS herbicide (positive)

?

1.4–6.3% (per total hygromycin tolerant calli)

Li et al. 2016

TALENs

16

OsALS (W548 L and S627I)

rice

Bombardment and T-DNA

Hygromycine and BS (positive)

BS (positive)

100 + 46 (330 bp interval)

7.0–25% (number of perfect HDR events per total calli)

Sun et al. 2016

CRISPR/Cas9

17

OsALS (W548 L and S627I)

rice

T-DNA

Hygromycine and BS (positive), lig4 background

BS (positive)

329 + 635

0.147–1.000% (number of perfect HDR events per total calli)

Endo et al. 2016

CRISPR/Cas9

18

Nitrate transporter NRT1.1B

rice

Bombardment

Hygromycine (positive)

None

100 + 100

6.72%

Li et al. 2018a

CRISPR/Cas9

19

OsALS (W548 L and S627I)

rice

Bombardment

Hygromycine and BS (positive)

BS (positive)

97 bp left arm only or 97 + 121

0.66% (only left homologous arm) and 1.22% (both arms)

Li et al. 2018b

CRISPR/Cpf1

20

Wheat ubiquitin gene (TaUbi)

wheat

WDV replicon bombardment

GFP (positive)

GFP

748 + 773

3.8% (per total protoplasts) and 5.74% (per total cells, normalized to scutela transformation efficiency)

Gil-Humanes et al. 2017

CRISPR/Cas9

Mildew Locus O (TaMLO)

wheat

WDV replicon bombardment

BFP (positive)

BFP

674 + 647

6.4% (per total cells, normalized to scutela transformation efficiency)

5-enolypyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (TaEPSPS)

wheat

WDV replicon bombardment

dsRED (positive)

dsRED

210 + 646

4.7% (per total cells, normalized to scutela transformation efficiency)

TaUbi and TaMLO, multiplexed

wheat

WDV replicon bombardment

GFP and BFP (positive)

GFP and BFP

748 + 773 (TaUbi) and 674 + 647 (TaMLO)

1.1% (per total cells, normalized to scutela transformation efficiency)

TaUbi and TaEPSPS, multiplexed

wheat

WDV replicon bombardment

GFP and dsRED (positive)

GFP and dsRED

748 + 773 (TaUbi) and 210 + 646 (TaEPSPS)

0.4% (per total cells, normalized to scutela transformation efficiency)

21

OsACT and OsGST

Rice

WDV replicon T-DNA

GFP and kanamycin (positive)

GFP and kanamycin

500 + 500

Cas9 overexpressed background: 19.4% (OsACT) and 7.7% (OsGST); WT background 8.5% (OsACT) and 4.7% (OsGST)

Wang et al. 2017

CRISPR/Cas9