Masterclass Series: Crop Transformation for Genome Editing
April 27th – June 22nd, 2021
Co-organisers: Christian Rogers, Kan Wang, Dave Somers, Nigel Taylor, Wendy Harwood Video Links for Previous Masterclasses in Crop Engineering:
Masterclass 1
Tuesday April 27th, 2021
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Applying CRISPR/Cas in plants: From gene editing to chromosome engineering
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Improvement of temperate cereals by Cas endonuclease-mediated mutagenesis
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Genome editing technologies for engineering crops of the future: Synthetic Directed Evolution
Masterclass 2
Tuesday May 11th, 2021
Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University
Development of Tissue Culture and Transformation Methods: The Short Version
Corteva Agriscience
Wus2/Bbm methods for immature embryo transformation/editing in cereal crops
Masterclass 3
Tuesday May 25th, 2021
Corteva Agriscience
Leaf transformation as a new platform for genome editing in maize and other cereals
Iowa State University
Towards genetic transformation of recalcitrant maize inbred lines: how to convert an art to science
University of Wisconsin WCIC
Transformation of maize inbred line LH244 via a standard (nonmorphogenic gene-based) protocol.
Masterclass 4
Tuesday June 8th, 2021
Donald Danforth Plant Science Centre
Overview of capacity and challenges in cassava morphogenic and genetic transformation
National Agricultural Research Organization, Uganda
Cassava transformation pipeline adapted for the Ugandan conditions
National Root Crop Research Institute
Exploring the transformation potency of farmer preferred cassava cultivars
Wageningen University and Research
Cassava Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated root transformation
Masterclass 5
Tuesday June 15th, 2021
John Innes Centre
Introduction and overview of challenges and strategies in small-grain transformation
National Institute of Agricultural Botany
An overview of the NIAB cereal transformation platform
University of Minnesota
Eragrostis tef Transformation using Developmental Regulators Baby boom and Wuschel
Masterclass 6
Tuesday June 22nd, 2021
CSIRO
Interview: The pathway to delivery of a transgenic cowpea product to African farmers.
Wisconsin Crop Improvement Centre
Genotype-flexible, meristem-based transformation of soybean targeting optimized embryonic axis explants
Corteva Agriscience
Advanced cowpea transformation and genome editing system using embryonic axis explants
