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The emergence of transgenic potatoes as commercial products and tools for basic science

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The potato has tremendous potential as a transgenic crop and is a good model system by which to analyse metabolic regulation and gene expression. The potato’s difficult genetics, but ease of genetic transformation and its clonal means of propagation make it ideal for applied agricultural molecular genetics. Thus, the next 4 years promise to put the potato (with a diversity of transgenic constructs expressed) in the limelight as many of the first transgenic agricultural products enter the marketplace.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of Maine, 177 Hitchner Hall, 04469-0113, Orono, ME, USA

    Michael E. Vayda

  2. US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Center, 800 Buchanan Street, 94710, Albany, CA, USA

    William R. Belknap

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Vayda, M.E., Belknap, W.R. The emergence of transgenic potatoes as commercial products and tools for basic science. Transgenic Research 1, 149–163 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02522533

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