Claim · model-written summary
Most insertion sites caused no to little agronomic performance decrease in five maize hybrid backgrounds.
- Material
- maize hybrid backgroundse0
- Treatment
- transgene insertione0
- Outcome
- agronomic performancee0
- Direction
- no to little decreasee0
- Setting
- multilocation fielde0
Zea maysNot reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“multilocation field evaluation detected no to little decrease in agronomic performance as a result of transgene insertion at the vast majority of sites we evaluated with a single construct in five maize hybrid backgrounds”
Title
Scott D. Betts; Sutirtha Basu; Joy Bolar; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2019. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01209
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Association Cis-regulatory elements affected transgene expression.
- Association Nearby transgene neighbors affected transgene expression.
- Association Genomic location had the least impact on transgene expression among factors investigated.
- Observation Most insertion sites supported statistically indistinguishable expression levels.
- Observation All 68 evaluated genomic sites supported high transgene expression across generations.