Open AccessEngineered Plant Minichromosomes: A Bottom-Up Success?
Author(s) -
Andreas Houben,
R. Kelly Dawe,
Jiming Jiang,
Ingo Schubert
Publication year - 2008
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.107.056622
Subject(s) - biology , top down and bottom up design , evolutionary biology , computer science , software engineering
Engineered minichromosomes offer an enormous opportunity to improve crop performance, as recently discussed ([Houben and Schubert, 2007][1]). Unlike conventional gene transformation technologies, minichromosomes can be used simultaneously to transfer and to express stably (multiple) sets of genes.
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