Causes and Consequences of Pathogen Induced Transgene Instability

Research Approach:<BR> The underlying causes of transgene instability are both genetic and environmental. An understanding of the underlying principles and causes of transgene instability are relevant not only to the interactions between transgenic plants and their pathogens, but also to assessing transgenic plants containing multiple transgene copies, and to transgene stacking (both by hybridisation and the insertion of single large complex transgene constructs). Multiple transgene copies and transgene stacking may be used to produce future generations of all plants to confer a variety of introduced traits.

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