Multiplexed editing of a begomovirus genome restricts escape mutant formation and disease development

• Anirban Roy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AR and YZ contributed equally to this work, and are co-first authors.

  Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America, Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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• Ying Zhai ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AR and YZ contributed equally to this work, and are co-first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

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• Jessica Ortiz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4646-0697

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• Michael Neff,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

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• Bikash Mandal,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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• Sunil Kumar Mukherjee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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• Hanu R. Pappu

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

  * E-mail: hrp@wsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States of America

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