The genome of cultivated sweet potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5844-5849

  Kyndt, Tina ^a   Quispe, Dora ^a,b   Zhai, Hong ^c   Jarret, Robert ^d   Ghislain, Marc ^b   Liu, Qingchang ^c   Gheysen, Godelieve ^a   Kreuze, Jan F ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium spp.; Food safety; Horizontal gene transfer; Sweet potato; Transgenic crops

Indexed keywords

AGROCINOPINE SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL DNA; HYDROLASE; INDOLE 3 ACETAMIDE HYDROLASE; PROTEIN C; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRYPTOPHAN 2 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; T-DNA;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; FOOD CROP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; INVERTED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RESTRICTION SITE; RHIZOBIUM RHIZOGENES; RNA SEQUENCE; ROOTING; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SWEET POTATO; TRANSGENIC CROP; WILD SPECIES; WILD TYPE; FOOD SAFETY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; SHOOT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IPOMOEA BATATAS;

AGROBACTERIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; FOOD SAFETY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, PLANT; IPOMOEA BATATAS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84929000302     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1419685112     Document Type: Article

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