Corn transformed
Journal Article
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· Science (Washington, D.C.); (USA)
Researchers have produced fertile corn transformed with a foreign gene that makes the plants resistant to the herbicide bialaphos. This achievement, is the first report of fertile transgenic corn in the reviewed literature, and it is the capstone of almost a decade's efforts to genetically engineer this country's most important crop. The only other major crop to be so manipulated is rice. The ability produce transgenic corn gives biologists a valuable tool to probe the whys and hows of gene expression and regulation. It may also give plant breeders a way to develop new corn varieties with a speed and predictability that would be impossible with classical breeding techniques.
- OSTI ID:
- 6047712
- Journal Information:
- Science (Washington, D.C.); (USA), Journal Name: Science (Washington, D.C.); (USA) Vol. 249:4969; ISSN SCIEA; ISSN 0036-8075
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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