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The use of transgenic plants as experimental tools in gene analysis and for the alteration of agronomic characters is fundamental to our attempts to improve crops. There are at least five ways to introduce foreign genes into plants. Here we would like to describe the merits and shortcomings of each method and present our results in producing transgenic rice plants. In addition, we propose a method using transgenic plants to facilitate cloning of genes which are difficult to identify by other methods.
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Wu, R., Kemmerer, E., McElroy, D. (1990). Transformation and Regeneration of Important Crop Plants: Rice as the Model System for Monocots. In: Gustafson, J.P. (eds) Gene Manipulation in Plant Improvement II. Stadler Genetics Symposia Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7047-5_13
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