On target. Once tobacco plants swapped genes after their DNA was broken, they survived herbicide treatment (right). Picture Credit: Annah Goergen/University of Minnesota.
Agricultural biotechnology expert ROGER BEACHY, president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, is also enthusiastic. "The advance is highly significant for plant biotechnology," he says. "It brings a new level of sophistication to the [field]." Click here for more information by Elizabeth Pennisi ScienceNOW Daily News - Washington, DC, USA, 29 April 2009
More interesting information. BEACHY said the two St. Louis projects are complementary, and the Danforth center and Washington University will share their research work. Click to read the article in the Associated Press by Jim Salter, 04.29.09, 11:45 EDT
