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Mitigation of establishment of Brassica napus transgenes in volunteers using a tandem construct containing a selectively unfit gene.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Jan 2006
Al-Ahmad Hani, Dwyer Jennice, Moloney Maurice, Gressel Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
Transgenic oilseed rape (Brassica napus) plants may remain as 'volunteer' weeds in following crops, complicating cultivation and contaminating crop yield. Volunteers can become feral as well as act as a genetic bridge for the transfer of transgenes to weedy relatives. Transgenic mitigation using genes that are positive or neutral to the crop, but deleterious to weeds, should prevent volunteer establishment, as...
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