A molecular toolkit to boost functional genomic studies in transformation-recalcitrant vegetable legumes

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key Research & Development Program of China (2022YFE0198000), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (32202470, 32202521), the State Key Laboratory for Managing Biotic and Chemical Threats to the Quality and Safety of Agro-products (2021 DC700024-KF202217), and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ21C150004). We thank Professor Deyue Yu for kindly providing the pGmUbi-Cas9-4XsgR vector.

Author contributions

X.W. and P.X. conceived and designed the experiments. P.Z., S.C., Z.Z., Y.Z., P.F., K.N., and T.S. helped to perform the experiments. P.X. helped revise the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Data availability

Data are available upon request to the corresponding author.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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