Naturally transgenic plants as a model for the study of delayed environmental risks of cultivation of GMOs

Abstract

The development of genetic engineering raises the question of biosafety of transgenic organisms. The greatest concerns about the negative effects of GMO cultivation are reduced to possible leakage of transgenes through cross-pollination of non-transgenic closely related forms by transgenic pollen. Naturally transgenic plants are species which have been subjected to Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and retained the T-DNA-like sequence in their genomes. These species can be considered as a model for the study of delayed environmental risks associated with leakage of transgenes. The review is devoted to this problem.

Keywords

natural and transgenic plants / T-DNA / the spread of transgenes

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Matveeva T.V.