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Poor competitive fitness of transgenically mitigated tobacco in competition with the wild type in a replacement series.
Planta - 1 Oct 2005
Al-Ahmad Hani, Galili Shmuel, Gressel Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
Transgenic crops can interbreed with other crop cultivars or with related weeds, increasing the potential of the hybrid progeny for competition. To prevent generating competitive hybrids, we previously tested tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) as a model for validating the transgenic mitigation (TM) concept using tandem constructs where a gene of choice is linked to mitigating genes that are positive or neutral to...
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