Outlook for coeliac disease patients: towards bread wheat with hypoimmunogenic gluten by gene editing of α- and γ-gliadin gene families

Wheat grains contain gluten proteins, which harbour immunogenic epitopes that trigger Coeliac disease in 1 –2% of the human population. Wheat varieties or accessions containing only safe gluten have not been id...

Source: BMC Plant Biology - August 1, 2019 Category: Biology Authors: Aur élie Jouanin, Jan G. Schaart, Lesley A. Boyd, James Cockram, Fiona J. Leigh, Ruth Bates, Emma J. Wallington, Richard G. F. Visser and Marinus J. M. Smulders Tags: Research article Source Type: research