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Summary    CRISPR‐Cas9 has proven to be highly valuable for genome editing in plants, including the model plant  Physcomitrium patens . However, the fact that most of the editing events produced using the native Cas9 nuclease correspond to small insertions and deletions is a limitation.  CRISPR‐Cas9 base editors enable targeted mutation of single nucleotides in eukaryotic genomes and therefore overcome this limitation. Here, we report two programmable base‐editing systems to induce precise cytosine or adenine conversions in  P .  patens .  Using cytosine or adenine base editors, site‐specific single‐base mutations can be achieved with an efficiency up to 55%, without off‐target mutations. Using the  APT  gene as a reporter of editing, we could show that both base editors can be used in simplex or multiplex, allowing for the production of protein variants with multiple amino‐acid changes. Finally, we set up a co‐editing selection system, named selecting modification of APRT to report gene targeting (SMART), allowing up to 90% efficiency site‐specific base editing in  P .  patens .  These two base editors will facilitate gene functional analysis in  P .  patens , allowing for site‐specific editing of a given base through single sgRNA base editing or for  in planta  evolution of a given gene through the production of randomly mutagenised variants using multiple sgRNA base editing.

A blueprint for gene function analysis through Base Editing in the model plant Physcomitrium (Physcomitrella) patens