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A phosphonate monoester hydrolase from Burkholderia caryophilli PG2982 is useful as a conditional lethal gene in plants.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Aug 1996
Dotson S B, Lanahan M B, Smith A G, Kishore G M
Abstract excerpt
A bacterial phosphonate monoester hydrolase was evaluated in plants as a conditional lethal gene useful for cell ablation and negative selection. Glyphosate is a potent herbicide whereas its phosphonate monoester derivative, glyceryl glyphosate, is approximately 50-fold less active. A phosphonate monoesterase gene (pehA) encoding an enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphonate esters including glyceryl glyphosate to...
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