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Science 11 October 1996:
Vol. 274. no. 5285, pp. 180 - 181
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5285.180
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Research News

James Kling

Seattle--In the United States, government officials are approving more and more transgenic crops for widespread field testing. But based on new data on the frequency of gene transfer, some ecologists fear that advantageous genes, such as those that confer virus resistance, could escape from the crops into wild plants and create a hardier race of weeds.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Broad-Spectrum Protection against Tombusviruses Elicited by Defective Interfering RNAs in Transgenic Plants.
T. Rubio, M. Borja, H. B. Scholthof, P. A. Feldstein, T. J. Morris, and A. O. Jackson (1999)
J. Virol. 73, 5070-5078
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