The Flavr Savr tomato, and early example of RNAi technology
2008
A:PS
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Title
The Flavr Savr tomato, and early example of RNAi technology
Publication Date
2008
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A:PS
Summary
The Flavr Savr tomato was introduced as the first genetically engineered whole food in 1994. The commercial event, resulting from transformation with an antisense expression cassette of the endogenous polygalacturonase gene, was sequenced and found to contain two contiguous, linked, transfer DNA insertions. We found polygalacturonase suppression correlates with accumulation of = 21-nt small interfering RNAs, the hallmark of an RNA interference-mediated suppression mechanism.
Journal Citation
v.43(3):962-964, HORTSCIENCE
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