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Loopholes for smuggling DNA into pollen

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The development of an efficient transformation method for pollen promises to provide a simple and tissue culture-independent technique for genetic engineering in plants.

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Fig. 1: Generation of transgenic plants by pollen magnetofection.

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Ruf, S., Bock, R. Loopholes for smuggling DNA into pollen. Nature Plants 3, 918–919 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-017-0072-y

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