Resistance to the herbicide glyphosate

被引：4

作者：

Robert, S

Baumann, U

机构：

[1] Univ Washington, Dept Zool, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[2] Univ Adelaide, Dept Plant Sci, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

来源：

NATURE | 1998年 / 395卷 / 6697期

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D O I：

10.1038/25628

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The News and Views article by Gray and Raybould1 paints a rosy picture of the future of agricultural crops engineered with resistance to the herbicide glyphosate. It is true that the presence of the glyphosate resistance transgene (the EPSPS gene) in the chloroplast genome of crop plants would eliminate pollen transfer of this gene to weedy relatives. But there have already been large-scale releases of transgenic, glyphosate-resistant (‘Roundup Ready’) crops, including glyphosate-resistant Brassica napus (Canola, varieties Quest and LG3295), which is disturbing as there are many Brassica weeds that could potentially hybridize with the engineered B. napus (for example, see ref. 2).

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页数：2