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Genetically Engineered Flax: Potential Benefits, Risks, Regulations, and Mitigation of Transgene Movement

2009-11-01

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Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) has been grown for more than 6000 years, primarily for oil and fiber. Advances in plant biotechnology have resulted in flax cultivars with increased herbicides resistance and there is potential to produce transgenic flax with seed oil containing fatty acids with nutraceutical properties. Flax oil is a rich source of α-linolenic acid (ALA, 18:3ᶜⁱˢ Δ⁹,¹²,¹⁵), a precursor of the very lon...

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Literature Corpus work: a34c33f2-ca7c-52de-8f02-3d7171d99837
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2009.05.0251

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