Tracking Papaya Pollen Movement with the GUS Transgene Marker
Tracking Papaya Pollen Movement with the GUS Transgene Marker
- Acta Horticulturae, 740, p.183-191, 2007 .
Transgenic, virus-resistant papaya cultivars in Hawaii are easily identified by a colorimetric assay for the beta-glucuronidase (GUS)marker transgene. We used GUS to track pollen movement from a central 0.5-ha plot of gynodioecious transgenic 'Rainbow' plants by seed assays on plants in surrounding border rows of non-transgenic 'Sunrise' papaya. GUS evidence of cross-pollination occurred in 70
GENETIC ENGINEERING
BETA-GLUCURONIDASE
SELF-POLLINATION
CROSS-POLLINATION
GENE FLOW
POLLEN DRIFT
GYNODIOECIOUS
HERMAPHRODITE
FEMALE
Transgenic, virus-resistant papaya cultivars in Hawaii are easily identified by a colorimetric assay for the beta-glucuronidase (GUS)marker transgene. We used GUS to track pollen movement from a central 0.5-ha plot of gynodioecious transgenic 'Rainbow' plants by seed assays on plants in surrounding border rows of non-transgenic 'Sunrise' papaya. GUS evidence of cross-pollination occurred in 70
GENETIC ENGINEERING
BETA-GLUCURONIDASE
SELF-POLLINATION
CROSS-POLLINATION
GENE FLOW
POLLEN DRIFT
GYNODIOECIOUS
HERMAPHRODITE
FEMALE