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Yiping Qi is affiliated with East Carolina University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Insect Science, Genetics, and Aging.

The scientist's work concentrates on a range of topics including CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Plant Virus Research Studies, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA regulation and disease, and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

Yiping Qi has authored numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors, 2021, Nature Plants
  • PAM-less plant genome editing using a CRISPR-SpRY toolbox, 2021, Nature Plants
  • CRISPR-Act3.0 for highly efficient multiplexed gene activation in plants, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Plant Prime Editors Enable Precise Gene Editing in Rice Cells, 2020, Molecular Plant
  • CRISPR-Cas12b enables efficient plant genome engineering, 2020, Nature Plants

Frequent co-authors with whom Yiping Qi has collaborated include Yong Zhang, Simon Sretenovic, Xuelian Zheng, Changtian Pan, and Yanhao Cheng.

The primary venues where Yiping Qi's research has been published are:

  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Nature Plants
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Plant Communications

Best Publications

  • Selection-free zinc-finger-nuclease engineering by context-dependent assembly (CoDA)

    Jeffry D. Sander;Elizabeth J. Dahlborg;Mathew J. Goodwin;Lindsay Cade

  • A CRISPR/Cas9 Toolbox for Multiplexed Plant Genome Editing and Transcriptional Regulation

    Levi G Lowder;Dengwei Zhang;Nicholas J Baltes;Joseph West Paul

  • A CRISPR-Cpf1 system for efficient genome editing and transcriptional repression in plants.

    Xu Tang;Levi G. Lowder;Tao Zhang;Aimee A. Malzahn

  • Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases Enable Efficient Plant Genome Engineering

    Yong Zhang;Feng Zhang;Xiaohong Li;Joshua A. Baller

  • Erratum: A CRISPR-Cpf1 system for efficient genome editing and transcriptional repression in plants (Nature plants (2017) 3 (17018))

    Xu Tang;Levi G. Lowder;Tao Zhang;Aimee A. Malzahn

  • The emerging and uncultivated potential of CRISPR technology in plant science.

    Yingxiao Zhang;Aimee A Malzahn;Simon Sretenovic;Yiping Qi

  • BR-SIGNALING KINASE1 physically associates with FLAGELLIN SENSING2 and regulates plant innate immunity in Arabidopsis.

    Hua Shi;Qiujing Shen;Yiping Qi;Haojie Yan

  • Plant genome editing with TALEN and CRISPR.

    Aimee Malzahn;Levi G Lowder;Yiping Qi

  • A large-scale whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals highly specific genome editing by both Cas9 and Cpf1 (Cas12a) nucleases in rice.

    Xu Tang;Guanqing Liu;Jianping Zhou;Qiurong Ren

  • Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors.

    Kutubuddin A. Molla;Simon Sretenovic;Kailash C. Bansal;Yiping Qi

  • Activities and specificities of CRISPR/Cas9 and Cas12a nucleases for targeted mutagenesis in maize.

    Keunsub Lee;Yingxiao Zhang;Benjamin P. Kleinstiver;Jimmy A. Guo

  • Robust Transcriptional Activation in Plants Using Multiplexed CRISPR-Act2.0 and mTALE-Act Systems

    Levi G. Lowder;Jianping Zhou;Yingxiao Zhang;Aimee Malzahn

  • Increasing frequencies of site-specific mutagenesis and gene targeting in Arabidopsis by manipulating DNA repair pathways

    Yiping Qi;Yong Zhang;Yong Zhang;Feng Zhang;Joshua A. Baller

  • Application of CRISPR-Cas12a temperature sensitivity for improved genome editing in rice, maize, and Arabidopsis

    Aimee A. Malzahn;Aimee A. Malzahn;Xu Tang;Keunsub Lee;Qiurong Ren

  • CRISPR-Cas9 Based Genome Editing Reveals New Insights into MicroRNA Function and Regulation in Rice

    Jianping Zhou;Kejun Deng;Yan Cheng;Zhaohui Zhong

  • Targeted Mutagenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana Using Engineered TAL Effector Nucleases

    Michelle Christian;Yiping Qi;Yong Zhang;Daniel F. Voytas

  • PAM-less plant genome editing using a CRISPR-SpRY toolbox.

    Qiurong Ren;Simon Sretenovic;Shishi Liu;Xu Tang

  • A Single Transcript CRISPR-Cas9 System for Efficient Genome Editing in Plants

    Xu Tang;Xuelian Zheng;Yiping Qi;Dengwei Zhang

  • Improving Plant Genome Editing with High-Fidelity xCas9 and Non-canonical PAM-Targeting Cas9-NG

    Zhaohui Zhong;Simon Sretenovic;Qiurong Ren;Lijia Yang

  • Plant Prime Editors Enable Precise Gene Editing in Rice Cells.

    Xu Tang;Simon Sretenovic;Qiurong Ren;Xinyu Jia

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel F. Voytas
Daniel F. Voytas University of Minnesota
Fumiaki Katagiri
Fumiaki Katagiri University of Minnesota
Dabing Zhang
Dabing Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Kenichi Tsuda
Kenichi Tsuda Huazhong Agricultural University
Jane Glazebrook
Jane Glazebrook University of Minnesota
J. Keith Joung
J. Keith Joung Harvard University
Kan Wang
Kan Wang Iowa State University
Joyce Van Eck
Joyce Van Eck Boyce Thompson Institute
Rajeev K. Varshney
Rajeev K. Varshney Murdoch University

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