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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS
Volume 111, Issue 8, Pages 1608-1616Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-005-0092-2
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The elimination of marker genes after selection is recommended for the commercial use of genetically modified plants. We compared the applicability of the two site-specific recombination systems Cre/lox and Flp/FRT for marker gene elimination in maize plants. The selection marker gene pat surrounded by two identically directed lox or FRT sites was introduced into maize. Sexual crossing with plants harboring the corresponding constitutively expressed recombinase led to the precise and complete excision of the lox-flanked marker gene in the F-1 progeny, whereas Flp-mediated recombination of FRT sequences occurred rarely. Further examination of site-specific integration was done by biolistic bombardment of immature embryos harboring only one lox site with a lox.uidA sequence with results indicating directed integration.
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