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Technology issues in plant development

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For much of the 1980s and 1990s, the challenge to researchers in plant biotechnology was the isolation of potentially useful genes and the development of methods of transforming and then expressing those genes in appropriate crop strains.

Within the next decade, the task will be very different. Genes, in essence, will be in surfeit. The new challenge will be to make sense of the genetic information and to build outward from it to understand how we can control the way genes act in concert to produce crop traits of interest to farmers, processors, and consumers.

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Mazur, B. Technology issues in plant development. Nat Biotechnol 17 (Suppl 2), BV9–BV10 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/7152

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