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| Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
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| Author(s): | Dashek, William V.;
Williams, Arthur L. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Dept. of Biology, Atlanta Univ. |
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| Title: | Biotechnological Generation of Plants Resistant to Mine-Site Pollutants. |
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| Source: | Plant Physiology. Vol. 89, No. 4, April 1989, p. 191. |
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| Publishing Information: | Lancaster, PA: American Society of Plant Physiologists |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis tenuis
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| Abstract/Contents: | "The United States Department of Interior maintains a program designed to reclaim the land occupied by abandoned mine sites. These can be contaminated with pollutant levels of Zn++. The quantities of this element required to adequately sustain plant growth and development are 0.065-0.250 ppm. However, various metal-tolerant plants (e. g., Agrostis tenuis) have been discovered making "cleansing" of abandoned mine site lands possible through seeding of the sites with clones of the tolerant plants. Here, we suggest that these sites be seeded with Agrostis tenuis, Rhode Island bentgrass, and that DNA fragments be excised form the genome of pollen of the survivors by resitriction endonucleases followed by characterization of the fragments and their insertions into appropriate vectors (Ti plasmids). The vectors could be employed to transfer DNA fragments carrying the information for pollutant resistance to Agrostis pollen to possibly achieve "super-resistance." " |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | This item is an abstract only! |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Dashek, W. V., and A. L. Williams. 1989. Biotechnological Generation of Plants Resistant to Mine-Site Pollutants.. Plant Physiol. 89(4):p. 191. |
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