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'Cisgenic' as a product designation

Nature Biotechnology volume 24, pages 1329–1331 (2006)Cite this article

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Cisgenesis (more commonly called intragenesis1) and transgenesis are two technically similar approaches to create genetic variability through gene-splicing technology. Cisgenic plants are defined as plants that have been genetically modified with one or more genes (including introns and flanking regions such as native promoter and terminator regions in a sense orientation) isolated from a crossable donor plant; that is, of the same or a closely related species2,3 or isolated from within the existing genome1. Transgenic plants can be described as plants that contain recombined DNA from unrelated organisms1. Thus, the sources of the genes used to genetically modify the plant are different.

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  1. ATHENA Institute of the Free University, Earth & Life Sciences, De Boelelaan, 1081 HV 1085, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Tjard de Cock Buning

  2. Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, PO Box 386, Wageningen, 6700 AJ, The Netherlands

    Edith T Lammerts van Bueren

  3. Plant Physiology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan, 1098 SM 318, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  4. LIS Consult, Laan van Hoornwijck 1, Rijswijk, 2289 DG, The Netherlands

    Huib C de Vriend

  5. Plant Sciences Group, Crop and Weed Ecology, Wageningen University, PO Box 430, Wageningen, 6700 AK, The Netherlands

    Paul C Struik

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de Cock Buning, T., Lammerts van Bueren, E., Haring, M. et al. 'Cisgenic' as a product designation. Nat Biotechnol 24, 1329–1331 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1106-1329b

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