INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.

Methods for obtaining plant cells, plants, and plant parts, including soybean plant cells, plants, and plant parts, comprising synthetic polynucleotides that provide for increased expression of encoded RNA-guided endonucleases (RGEs), RNA guided nickase (RGNs), and RNA guided DNA binding proteins are disclosed. Also provided are soybean plant cells, plants, and plant parts comprising synthetic polynucleotides that provide for increased expression of encoded RNA-guided endonucleases (RGEs), RNA guided nickase (RGNs), and RNA guided DNA binding proteins.

A method for predicting endophenotypes of interacting partner genes includes obtaining one or more endophenotype profiles corresponding to a genotype, partitioning the one or more endophenotype profiles into a first set of endophenotypes and a second set of endophenotypes, and receiving an input to modify the first set of endophenotypes to a desired level. The method thus includes inputting the modified first set of endophenotypes and unmodified second set of endophenotypes into a trained machine-learning model to obtain a prediction of an updated second set of endophenotypes. The updated second set of endophenotypes represents an updated version of the second set of endophenotypes after interacting with the modified subset of the first set of endophenotypes.

A method for generating a gene regulatory sequence with a desired endophenotype profile includes obtaining a plurality of gene regulatory sequences and inputting the plurality of gene regulatory sequences into a machine-learning model trained to obtain a plurality of effect predictions corresponding to a plurality of endophenotypes. The method further includes selecting one or more desired endophenotypes based on the plurality of endophenotypes and selecting a gene regulatory sequence in accordance with the one or more desired endophenotypes.

Disclosed herein are methods of improving agronomic traits in crop plants through editing sequences within the 5′ untranslated region (UTR) of plant genomes.

The present disclosure provides methods for editing a genomic target in a meristem of a plant that expresses Cas editing reagents by delivering to a plant root a guide RNA for the Cas nuclease. Various methods of delivering the guide RNA are provided. Plants edited using the methods are also provided.

Transgenic INIR6 maize plants comprising modifications of the DP-4114 maize locus which provide for facile excision of the modified DP-4114 transgenic locus or portions thereof, methods of making such plants, and use of such plants to facilitate breeding are disclosed.

Plant breeding and engineering has relied primarily on Mendelian genetics or recombinant techniques. The disclosure relates to novel maize plants, seeds and compositions, as well as improvements to maize plant breeding and methods for creating modifications in maize plant genomes. A transcriptional enhancer element which can increase the expression of both exogenous and endogenous maize genes is disclosed.

Transgenic INIR6 maize plants comprising modifications of the DP-4114 maize locus which provide for facile excision of the modified DP-4114 transgenic locus or portions thereof, methods of making such plants, and use of such plants to facilitate breeding are disclosed.

This disclosure provides compositions that include a polynucleotide including or encoding a Cas12a tracrRNA, and methods for their use in sequence-specific genome editing, especially of eukaryotic genomic sequences. In particular, this disclosure provides Cas12a tracrRNA-containing compositions and methods for their use in Cas12a-mediated editing of a target sequence, wherein the editing efficiency is increased in comparison to controls lacking the Cas12a tracrRNA.

Compositions and methods related to Cas proteins, nucleic acids encoding the Cas proteins, and modified host cells comprising the Cas proteins and/or encoding nucleic acids are disclosed. Cas proteins are useful in a variety of applications. Cas proteins bind guide RNAs that in turn provide functional specificity to the Cas proteins, nucleic acids encoding the Cas guide RNAs, and modified host cells comprising the Cas guide RNAs and/or encoding nucleic acids. The Cas polypeptides and corresponding guide RNAs can be used in a variety of applications.