Transgenic plants are organisms created by inserting foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell. The goal is to increase the plant's productivity and usefulness. The process of making transgenic plants involves: Transferring the gene of interest into the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens The bacterial cells transfer the new DNA to the genome of the plant cells Growing the plant cells that have successfully taken up the DNA to create a new plant The bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens is commonly used to insert the desired gene into plants. This insertion gives... Show more Transgenic plants are organisms created by inserting foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell. The goal is to increase the plant's productivity and usefulness. The process of making transgenic plants involves: Transferring the gene of interest into the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens The bacterial cells transfer the new DNA to the genome of the plant cells Growing the plant cells that have successfully taken up the DNA to create a new plant The bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens is commonly used to insert the desired gene into plants. This insertion gives rise to the desired traits in plants. Transgenic plants can have ideal traits, high yield, and quality. They can also act as factories for pharmaceutical protein production. For example, common food plants like banana, tomato, rice, and carrot have been used to produce vaccines against certain diseases like hepatitis B, cholera, and HIV. Some examples of transgenic plants include: Bt cotton, Bt corn, Bt potato, Bt tobacco. The tobacco plant, which was produced in 1982 and was antibiotic-resistant, was the world's first genetically modified crop. Show less
Transgenic plants are organisms created by inserting foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell. The goal is to increase the plant's productivity and usefulness.
The process of making transgenic plants involves: Transferring the gene of interest into the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens The bacterial cells transfer the new DNA to the genome of the plant cells Growing the plant cells that have successfully taken up the DNA to create a new plant
The bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens is commonly used to insert the desired gene into plants. This insertion gives rise to the desired traits in plants.
Transgenic plants can have ideal traits, high yield, and quality. They can also act as factories for pharmaceutical protein production. For example, common food plants like banana, tomato, rice, and carrot have been used to produce vaccines against certain diseases like hepatitis B, cholera, and HIV.
Some examples of transgenic plants include: Bt cotton, Bt corn, Bt potato, Bt tobacco. The tobacco plant, which was produced in 1982 and was antibiotic-resistant, was the world's first genetically modified crop.
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