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Article: Plant Bioscience obtains United States patent.
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- BIOTECH Patent News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Plant Bioscience Limited (Norwich, England) has patented methods for producing, at a high frequency, transgenic plants that contain little if any vector sequences, have simple integration patterns, contain few copies of the transgene at each locus, express the transgene at all stages of development and do not exhibit transgene silencing. The method comprises introducing minimal transgene expression cassettes, which are substantially or totally devoid of vector sequences, by direct DNA transfer, preferably by particle or microprojectile ...