Table 2.
Transmission of CRISPR-Cas9-induced mutations in the progenies of MGE construct-expressing wheat lines
| T0 plants | Genome | TaGW2 genotypea | TaMLO genotypea | N.O. of T1 progenies | N.O. of TaGW2 genotypesa | N.O. of TaMLO genotypesa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-1 | A | aa | aa | 28 | 0 AA | 0 Aa | 28 aa | 0 AA | 0 Aa | 28 aac |
| B | bb | BB | 0 BB | 0 Bb | 28 bbb | — | — | — | ||
| D | dd | DD | 0 DD | 0 Dd | 28 dd | — | — | — | ||
| GLM-2 | A | Aa | Aad | 31 | 7 AA | 17 Aa | 7 aa | 0 AAd | 10 Aa | 21 aa |
| B | BB | BB | 30 BB | 1 Bbe | 0 bb | — | — | — | ||
| D | Dd | DD | 10 DD | 15 Dd | 6 dd | — | — | — | ||
A/a, B/b, and D/d represent loci in different genomes; the uppercase and lowercase stand for wild-type and mutated alleles, respectively.
In GLM-1, the B genome copy of the TaGW2 gene has two different mutation types: 1 bp deletion (b1) and 3 bp deletion (b2; Fig. 2A). The segregation ratio of these two mutations is 10:14:4 (b1b1:b1b2:b2b2).
In GLM-1, the A genome copy of the TaMLO gene has two different mutation types: 1 bp deletion (a1) and 47 bp deletion (a2; Fig. 2A). The segregation ratio of these two mutations is 4:14:10 (a1a1:a1a2:a2a2).
Plant GLM-2 has wild-type reads and two different types of mutated reads (Fig. 2A) in the A genome copy of the TaMLO gene. However, its T1 progenies do not have homozygous wild-type plants.
New TaGW2 gene alleles in the B genome were induced by the transgenerationally active CRISPR-Cas9.