Precise base editing in rice, wheat and maize with a Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusion

By Y. Zong, Yanpeng Wang, Chao Li, Rui Zhang, Kunling Chen, Y. Ran, J. Qiu, Daowen Wang, Caixia Gao. Nature Biotechnology, 2017

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Genome Editing—Principles and Applications for Functional Genomics Research and Crop Improvement (2017, methodology): “This system has been used in rice, wheat, maize and tomato to create C to T substitutions in a window from position 3 to 9 within the protospacer, counting from the end distal to the PAM as position 1 (Lu and Zhu, 2016; Li et al., 2017b; Shimatani et al., 2017; Zong et al., 2017).”
Evaluation and Minimization of Cas9-Independent Off-Target DNA Editing by Cytosine Base Editors (2020, unknown): “CBEs have achieved high levels of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) conversion with low levels of indels in numerous cell types and organisms, including animal models of human genetic diseases 3–7 .”