Retrotransposon-mediated disruption of a chitin synthase gene confers insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3Aa toxin

Zhenxing Liu; Chongyu Liao; Luming Zou; Minghui Jin; Yinxue Shan; Yudong Quan; Hui Yao; Lei Zhang; Peng Wang; Zhuangzhuang Liu; Na Wang; Anjing Li; Kaiyu Liu; Bruce E. Tabashnik; David G. Heckel; Kongming Wu; Yutao Xiao

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002704

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Retrotransposon-mediated disruption of a chitin synthase gene confers insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3Aa toxin

Zhenxing Liu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenxing Liu, Chongyu Liao, Luming Zou, Minghui Jin, Yinxue Shan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Chongyu Liao ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenxing Liu, Chongyu Liao, Luming Zou, Minghui Jin, Yinxue Shan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Luming Zou ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenxing Liu, Chongyu Liao, Luming Zou, Minghui Jin, Yinxue Shan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Minghui Jin ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenxing Liu, Chongyu Liao, Luming Zou, Minghui Jin, Yinxue Shan

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Yinxue Shan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenxing Liu, Chongyu Liao, Luming Zou, Minghui Jin, Yinxue Shan

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Yudong Quan,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, West Yuanmingyuan Road, Beijing, China
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Hui Yao,

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Lei Zhang,

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Peng Wang,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Zhuangzhuang Liu,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Na Wang,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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Anjing Li,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Entomology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Kaiyu Liu,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Entomology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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Bruce E. Tabashnik,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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David G. Heckel ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: heckel@ice.mpg.de (DGH); wukongming@caas.cn (KW); xiaoyutao@caas.cn (YX)

Affiliations Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China, Department of Entomology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8991-2150

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Kongming Wu ,

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

* E-mail: heckel@ice.mpg.de (DGH); wukongming@caas.cn (KW); xiaoyutao@caas.cn (YX)

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, West Yuanmingyuan Road, Beijing, China
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Yutao Xiao

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: heckel@ice.mpg.de (DGH); wukongming@caas.cn (KW); xiaoyutao@caas.cn (YX)

Affiliation Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Gene Editing Technologies, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3203-9375

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Retrotransposon-mediated disruption of a chitin synthase gene confers insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3Aa toxin

Zhenxing Liu,
Chongyu Liao,
Luming Zou,
Minghui Jin,
Yinxue Shan,
Yudong Quan,
Hui Yao,
Lei Zhang,
Peng Wang,
Zhuangzhuang Liu

Published: July 2, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002704

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