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Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement pp 501–516Cite as

Recombinase-mediated Gene Integration in Plants

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Genetic transformation of plants is potentially the most precise technology available for crop improvement. Compared to crossing in a trait or inducing mutations, introducing a single characterized gene, or even several genes in a biosynthetic pathway, would be a more direct way to alter a plant phenotype without incorporating unwanted changes. While important scientific and agricultural advances are being made through plant transformation, the existing procedures leave room for improvement. As with animal systems (Jaenisch et al., 1981; Lacy et al., 1983), the same transforming molecule does not always generate transgenic materials with the same phenotype (Herrera-Estrella et al., 1984; Jones et al., 1985). In some reports, a high degree of phenotypic variation is seen among independent transformants. In other cases, plants which initially expressed a transgene either did not express or showed a reduced level of transgene expression later in development or in subsequent generations (Brandle et al., 1995; Meyer, 1995a,b).

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Albert, H., Ow, D.W. (1998). Recombinase-mediated Gene Integration in Plants. In: Jain, S.M., Brar, D.S., Ahloowalia, B.S. (eds) Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9125-6_25

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