A short history of plant transformation
School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, 3010 Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Subject Areas
- Agricultural Science, Biotechnology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science
- Keywords
- Agrobacterium, Plant Transformation, Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology, Science History
- Copyright
- © 2019 Somssich
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. A short history of plant transformation. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27556v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27556v2
Abstract
The 1977 discovery that Agrobacterium tumefaciens inserts a specific piece of DNA into the plant cell genome triggered a race towards the first transgenic plant. Three groups were initially involved in the race, a fourth group entered later on. This race ended in 1983 with four labs publishing their own transgenic plant cell lines. This scientific breakthrough triggered the plant-biotechnology industry, and advanced the field of plant science like hardly any other. Who won the race? Here’s 'A Short History of Plant Transformation'.
Author Comment
Corrected some minor errors that were pointed out to me.