Stacking transgenes in forest trees

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作者：

Halpin, C ^{[1
]}

Boerjan, W

机构：

[1] Univ Dundee, Scottish Crop Res Inst, Sch Life Sci, Plant Res Unit, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland

[2] State Univ Ghent VIB, Dept Plant Syst Biol, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium

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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE | 2003年 / 8卷 / 08期

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D O I：

10.1016/S1360-1385(03)00155-9

中图分类号：

Q94 [植物学];

学科分类号：

071001 ;

摘要：

Huge potential exists for improving plant raw materials and foodstuffs via metabolic engineering. To date, progress has mostly been limited to modulating the expression of single genes of well-studied pathways, such as the lignin biosynthetic pathway, in model species. However, a recent report illustrates a new level of sophistication in metabolic engineering by overexpressing one lignin enzyme while simultaneously suppressing the expression of another lignin gene in a tree, aspen. This novel approach to multi-gene manipulation has succeeded in concurrently improving several wood-quality traits.

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