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Nontransgenic crops from transgenic plants

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Figure 1: In the current generation of transgenic crops, every tissue of the plants is transgenic, including the fruit.
Figure 2: The transgenic cassette contains a tissue-specific or chemically inducible promoter driving a recombinase gene (such as Cre) and a second promoter driving a payload gene encoding the trait of interest.

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  1. Robert J. Keenan is staff scientist and Willem P.C. Stemmer is vice president of R&D, Maxygen, Inc., Redwood City, 94063, CA

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Keenan, R., Stemmer, W. Nontransgenic crops from transgenic plants. Nat Biotechnol 20, 215–216 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0302-215

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