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Self-fertile apple resulting from S-RNase gene silencing.
Plant cell reports - 1 Feb 2004
Broothaerts W, Keulemans J, Van Nerum I
Abstract excerpt
Self-incompatibility (SI) restricts fertilisation and fruit setting in many tree fruit crops. In apple, we have produced transgenic trees harbouring extra copies of the endogenous S-gene controlling SI. Two independent transgenic genotypes were characterised in detail. Controlled self- and cross-pollination of the flowers of trees from both genotypes over a 3-year-period showed that the transgenic lines produced...
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