Gen Li

The paper shows iron deficiency activates secondary cell wall biosynthesis in poplar by downregulating the repressor PtrbHLH011, which suppresses SCW and iron homeostasis genes.

The paper investigates off-target effects of multiplexed CRISPR-Cas12a editing in rice using whole-genome sequencing and finds low-frequency chromosomal deletions and duplications with high DSB numbers.

The paper evaluates variant calling in difficult genomic regions using short- and long-read sequencing, showing improved performance with new methods and multi-technology approaches.