Multiplex editing of the Nucleoredoxin1 tandem array in poplar: Decrypting outcomes due to CRISPR/Cas9-mediated translocations and complex inversions
Chen, Y.-H.; Sharma, S.; Bewg, W. P.; Xue, L.-J.; Gizelbach, C.; Tsai, C.-J.
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The CRISPR-Cas9 system has been deployed for precision mutagenesis in an ever-growing number of species, including agricultural crops and forest trees. Its application to closely linked genes with extremely high sequence similarities has been less explored. Here, we used CRISPR-Cas9 to mutagenize a tandem array of seven Nucleoredoxin1 (NRX1) genes spanning ~100 kb in Populus tremula x alba. We demonstrated efficient multiplex editing with one single gRNA in 42 transgenic lines. The mutation profiles ranged from small indels and local deletions in individual genes to large genomic dropouts and rearrangements spanning tandem genes. We also detected complex rearrangements including translocations and inversions resulting from multiple cleavage and repair events. Target capture sequencing was instrumental for unbiased assessments of repair outcomes to reconstruct unusual mutant alleles. The work highlights the power of CRISPR-Cas9 for multiplex editing of tandemly duplicated genes to generate diverse mutants with structural and copy number variations to aid functional characterization.
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