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Naturally transgenic plants as a model for the study of the delayed environmental risks of GMO cultivation

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The development of genetic engineering raises the question of the biosafety of transgenic organisms. The greatest concerns about the negative effects of GMO cultivation are associated with the possible leakage of transgenes through the crosspollination of closely related nontransgenic forms by transgenic pollen. Naturally transgenic plants are species that experienced agrobacterium-mediated transformation and retained a T-DNA-like sequence in their genomes. These species can be a model for the study of the delayed environmental risks associated with the leakage of transgenes. This opportunity is considered here.

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Original Russian Text © T.V. Matveeva, 2015, published in Ecologicheskaya Genetika, 2015, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 118–126.

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Matveeva, T.V. Naturally transgenic plants as a model for the study of the delayed environmental risks of GMO cultivation. Russ J Genet Appl Res 6, 698–704 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079059716060046

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