Rapeseed cytoplasm gives advantage in wild relatives and complicates genetically modified crop biocontainment

New Phytologist

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1201-1211

  Allainguillaume, J ^a   Harwood, T ^b   Ford, C S ^a   Cuccato, G ^a   Norris, C ^c   Allender, C J ^d   Welters, R ^e   King, G J ^f   Wilkinson, M J ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^f ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biocontainment; Brassica napus; Brassica rapa; Chloroplast capture; Chloroplast transformation; Genetically modified (GM) crops; Hybrid; Rapeseed

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; DICOTYLEDON; GENE FLOW; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; HYBRID; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMPATRY; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CHLOROPLAST; CROP; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TURNIP;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA RAPA; CHLOROPLASTS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE FLOW; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; TRANSGENES;

BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA;

EID: 68749112858     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02877.x     Document Type: Article

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