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Bisexual sterility conferred by the differential expression of barnase and barstar: a simple and efficient method of transgene containment.
Plant cell reports - 1 Dec 2006
Kobayashi Kappei, Munemura Ikuko, Hinata Kokichi, Yamamura Saburo
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To establish a simple and an efficient system to minimize the environmental risk of genetically modified plants, we tested the applicability of the barnase/barstar system in conferring bisexual sterility; that is, in preventing plants setting seeds by self-fertilization and out-crossing. Transgenic tobacco plants were generated to express barnase, a cell death inducing ribonuclease, under the control of the...
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