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Trade-offs between biomass growth and inducible biosynthesis of polyhydroxybutyrate in transgenic poplar.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Sept 2011
Dalton David A, Ma Cathleen, Shrestha Shreya, Kitin Peter, Strauss Steven H
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Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a bioplastic that can be produced in transgenic plants by the coexpression of three bacterial genes for its biosynthesis. PHB yields from plants have been constrained by the negative impacts on plant health that result from diversion of resources into PHB production; thus, we employed an ecdysone analogue-based system for induced gene expression. We characterized 49 insertion events...
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