Mitigation using a tandem construct containing a selectively unfit gene precludes establishment of Brassica napus transgenes in hybrids and backcrosses with weedy Brassica rapa

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-33

  Al Ahmad, Hani ^a   Gressel, Jonathan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dwarfism; Ecological competition; Gene flow; Interspecific hybridization; Oilseed rape; Transgenic mitigation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROP; CROSS BREEDING; GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; RAPESEED; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TURNIP;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA RAPA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, PLANT; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSGENES;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 33644857396     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2005.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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