Engineering null mutants in ZmFER1 confers resistance to ear rot caused by Fusarium verticillioides in maize.

Keywords: maize; CRISPR/Cas9; Fusarium ear rot; ZmFER1 EN maize CRISPR/Cas9 Fusarium ear rot ZmFER1 2045 2047 3 11/01/22 20221101 NES 221101 I Fusarium i ear rot (FER), a fungal disease caused by I Fusarium i spp., leads to great yield losses to maize worldwide and to mycotoxin contamination, which seriously threatens human and animal health (Yao I et al i ., 2020). Maize, CRISPR/Cas9, Fusarium ear rot, ZmFER1. [Extracted from the article]