The invention relates to the technical field of
gene engineering, in particular to establishment and application of a
plant virus mediated ABE base editing
system in cotton. According to the invention, CLCrV is used as a delivery medium, nCas9-TadA7.10-OE cotton is used as a transformation
receptor, and an ABE base editing
system based on CLCrV mediation is constructed. A
gene expression quantity result shows that nCas9 is stably genetically expressed in different
transgenic lines. Different constructed CLCrV-ABEs
virus vectors are inoculated to nC as9-TadA7.10-OE cotton,
mutation detection is carried out, a
deep sequencing result shows that CLCrV-AtU6-26: sgGhPEBP-ABE can effectively cause conversion from an A basic group to a G basic group of a GhPEBP
gene target site, and the editing efficiency is 6.18%-29.26%. Meanwhile, off-target detection is carried out in a
plant subjected to base editing of GhPEBP, and the result shows that no off-target phenomenon is detected on the predicted potential off-
target site, so that the CLCrV-mediated ABE base editing
system has certain gene editing specificity. The establishment of the
plant virus-mediated ABE base editing system in cotton provides a favorable technical tool for screening efficient sgRNAs in cotton and designing and breeding cotton molecules.