Gene-editing in plants no longer requires tissue culture

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Acknowledgements

We thank Yanpeng Wang (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) for help with the figure. Yi Zhang was supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark grant 8055-00038A, Michael Palmgren by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge grant NNF19OC005658.

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Yi Zhang and Michael Palmgren declare that they have no conflicts of interest or financial conflicts to disclose.

This article is a highlight and does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.

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