Plant Gene Editing Technology and its Applications in Fruit Trees
Compared with traditional transgenic technology,gene editing technology can rapidly and precisely modify the genome of an organism without introducing exogenous DNA fragments,and presents higher security.In recent years,gene editing technology has been widely used in many crops,such as rice,maize and potatoes and model plant Arabidopsis thaliana,which has also been successfully applied in fruit trees,showing great potential in fruit tree breeding.In this paper,we introduced the types and basic principles of plant gene editing technology,summarized the research progress of this technology in fruit trees,analysed the existing problems and looked forward to the prospect of the applications of gene editing technology in fruit trees.