Transgenic Plants - Overview

* Strategy

cut and paste cloned genes and insert into a crop plant

to produce a plant with a new trait

similar to cut and paste strategy of tissue grafting

or cut and paste strategy for editing of videotape

* Goals

expands the gene pool available for crop improvement

efficient transfer of new gene into an elite crop variety

* Methods

1 gene delivery

2 gene selection

3 plant regeneration

4 gene expression

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