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Real-time quantification of wild-type contaminants in glyphosate tolerant soybean.
BMC biotechnology - 6 Mar 2009
Battistini Elena, Noli Enrico
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Trait purity is a key factor for the successful utilization of biotech varieties and is currently assessed by analysis of individual seeds or plants. Here we propose a novel PCR-based approach to test trait purity that can be applied to bulk samples. To this aim the insertion site of a transgene is characterized and the corresponding sequence of the wild-type (wt) allele is used as diagnostic target...
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