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Transgenic Plants – Reality Check

plantguy May 2, 2013 September 22, 2013Plant Genetic Engineering 0

After Nearly 20 Years, What’s Up With Genetically-Engineered Crops? Genetically-engineered (or more commonly referred to as “genetically-modified”) crops have come along way since the ill-fated “Flavr Savr” tomato was first commercially produced and sold in 1994. (For more on the Flavr Savr tomato, see Update at the end of this…

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Doing the “Floral Dip” (DIY Plant Genetic Engineering)

plantguy October 21, 2012 October 21, 2012Plant Genetic Engineering 0

Making Transgenic Plants Without Using Tissue Culture Since the first successful genetic transformation of plants using Agrobacterium in 1983, many methods for transferring foreign genes into plants have been developed, including the so-called “gene guns”. (A good overview is presented in Ref 1 below.) Many, if not most, of these…

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