Wen Zhi Jiang

TL;DR: Adaptations of the type II CRISPR/Cas system leading to successful expression of the Cas9/sgRNA system in model plant and crop species bodes well for its near-term use as a facile and powerful means of plant genetic engineering for scientific and agricultural applications.

TL;DR: The creation and initial characterization of a group of rare-cutting, site-specific DNA nucleases produced by fusion of the restriction enzyme FokI endonuclease domain (FN) with the high-specificity DNA-binding domains of AvrXa7 and PthXo1 are reported.

TL;DR: This work describes the development of soybean and other broadleaf plant species resistant to dicamba, a widely used, inexpensive, and environmentally safe herbicide, and will augment current herbicide resistance technologies and extend their effective lifetime.

TL;DR: A CRISPR/Cas9 strategy that significantly enhanced oil composition in T3 and T4 generation Camelina seeds was associated with a combination of germ‐line mutations and somatic cell mutations in FAD2 genes in each of the three Camelina subgenomes.

TL;DR: This first crystal structure of a Rieske demethylase shows that the Rieskes oxygenase structural scaffold can be co-opted to perform varied types of reactions on xenobiotic substrates.