CORESTA Congress, Online, 2022, Agronomy/Phytopathology Groups, AP 56
Generating ultra-low nicotine tobaccos by combining knockout mutations in two key steps of the alkaloid biosynthetic pathway
Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
The development of ultra-low nicotine tobacco varieties that retain acceptable agronomic and quality properties has been a challenge. Naturally occurring genetic mutations, genetic engineering, and genome editing technologies have all been used to...