A built-in strategy for containment of transgenic plants: creation of selectively terminable transgenic rice.

Plant transgenic technology has been widely utilized for engineering crops for trait improvements and for production of high value proteins such as pharmaceuticals. However, the unintended spreading of commercial transgenic crops by pollination and seed dispersal is a major concern for environmental...

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Main Authors: Chaoyang Lin, Jun Fang, Xiaoli Xu, Te Zhao, Jiaan Cheng, Juming Tu, Gongyin Ye, Zhicheng Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2262152?pdf=render