Engineered plant DNA: regeneration and inheritance in tobacco

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Barton and colleagues regenerated tobacco plants containing engineered T-DNA and followed its transmission to progeny. The experiment connected plant transformation with recovery of whole plants and inheritance.

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This is a specific experimental paper among several contemporaneous plant-transformation advances, not sole invention of all genetically engineered crops. Tobacco regeneration does not itself establish field benefit, ecological safety or suitability in other species.

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Kenneth A. Barton; Andrew N. Binns; Antonius J.M. Matzke; Mary-Dell Chilton

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