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| Web URL(s): | http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1023/B:MOLB.0000037994.26287.17
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| Publication Type:
| Refereed |
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| Author(s): | Wang, Z. Y.;
Lawrence, R.;
Hopkins, A.;
Bell, J.;
Scott, M. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Forage Improvement Division, The Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation, Ardmore, Okalahoma |
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| Title: | Pollen-mediated transgene flow in the wind-pollinated grass species tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) |
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| Source: | Molecular Breeding. Vol. 14, No. 1, August 2004, p. 47-60. |
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| Publishing Information: | The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers |
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| # of Pages: | 14 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Transgenes; Gene flow; Pollination; Festuca arundinacea; Transgenic turfgrasses; Risk assessment
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Information regarding gene flow in wind-pollinated, outcrossing forage grasses is essential for any future releases of value-added transgenic cultivars. Experiments on pollen dispersal was carried out by growing transgenic tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) in a central plot, surrounded by exclosures containing recipient plants up to a distance of 200 m from the central source plants in eight directions. The central transgenic tall fescue plants carried a chimeric hygromycin phosphotransferase gene (hph) and a chimeric ß-glucuronidase gene (gusA). Seeds were collected from the recipient plants and germinated seedlings were used for high throughput DNA isolation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. More than 21,000 seedlings were PCR analyzed for the experiments conducted in three years. Transgenes were detected in recipient plants at up to 150 m from the central transgenic plot. The highest transgene frequencies, 5% at 50 m, 4.12% at 100 m and 0.96% at 150 m, were observed north of the central plot, the prevailing wind direction. Lower transgene frequencies were detected in other directions, particularly at 100 m and 150 m distances. No transgene was detected at 200 m distance in any direction. Transgene flow was less effective or ineffective when recipient plants were further away from the central donor plants. Southern blot hybridization analysis confirmed the transgenic nature of the PCR positive plants. A supplementary experiment demonstrated that transgene flow can be controlled by placing transgenic plantings downwind and long distances from non-transgenic seed increases, thus allowing tall fescue breeding and transgene development programs to be conducted concurrently at the same research station." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 67 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Wang, Z. Y., A. Hopkins, J. Bell, M. Scott, and R. Lawrence. 2004. Pollen-mediated transgene flow in the wind-pollinated grass species tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.). Molecular Breeding. 14(1):p. 47-60. |
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