Open AccessEngineered Plant Minichromosomes: A Resurrection of B Chromosomes?
Author(s) -
Andreas Houben,
Ingo Schubert
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.107.053603
Subject(s) - biology , genetics
A number of crop species of commercial interest have been transformed using either Agrobacterium -mediated, biolistic, or other systems. However, these methods have several limitations. For example, they allow insertion of single or a few genes at random genomic positions, but complex traits cannot
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