An intragenic approach to confer glyphosate resistance in chile (Capsicum annuum) by introducing an in vitro mutagenized chile EPSPS gene encoding for a glyphosate resistant EPSPS protein

• Jose Luis Ortega ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jose Luis Ortega, Wathsala Rajapakse

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Wathsala Rajapakse ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jose Luis Ortega, Wathsala Rajapakse

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Suman Bagga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Kimberly Apodaca,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Yvonne Lucero,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Champa Sengupta-Gopalan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: csgopalan@nmsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2336-2090

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