Links to literature on biological containment
This page contains links to articles and scientific papers on various aspects of biological containment. For copyright reasons we usually cannot provide these papers on this site, but link to sites where they can be found. Many of these are freely accesable, but for more recent papers you will be required to either have a paid subscription or to purchase the article.
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Gene flow
Darmency, H and Richard-Moland, M. Gene flow in sugar beet production fields. ISB New Report April 2008, 9-10. See also the references in that paper.
General reviews on biological containment strategies
Daniell H (2002) Molecular strategies for gene containment in transgenic crops. Nat Biotechnol 20: 581-586
Grevich JJ, Daniell H (2005) Chloroplast genetic engineering: Recent advances and future perspectives. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 24: 83-107
The April 2007 issue of Tree Genetics & Genomes is dedicated entirely to reviews on transgenic trees, including environmental impact, gene flow, and containment.
Hills MJ, Hall L, Arnison PG, and Good AG (2007). Genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs): strategies to impede transgene movement. Trends Plant Sci. 12(4), 177-183
Daniell, H. (2007) Transgene containment by maternal inheritance: Effective or elusive? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, 6879-6880
Research papers on biological containment strategies
Messeguer J, Penas G, Ballester J, Bas M, Serra J, et al. 2006. Pollen-mediated gene flow in maize in real situations of coexistence.Plant Biotechnology Journal 4: 633-4
Okumura S, Sawada M, Park YW, Hayashi T, Shimamura M, Takase H, Tomizawa KI (2006) Transformation of poplar (Populus alba) plastids and expression of foreign proteins in tree chloroplasts. Transgenic Research 15:637-646
Ruf S, Karcher D, Bock R (2007) Determining the transgene containment level provided by chloroplast transformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 6998-7002
Ribarits A, Mamun ANK, Li S, Resch T, Fiers M, Heberle-Bors E, Liu CM, Touraev A (2007) Combination of reversible male sterility and doubled haploid production by targeted inactivation of cytoplasmic glutamine synthetase in developing anthers and pollen. Plant Biotechnology Journal 5:483-494
Svab, Z. and Maliga, P. (2007) Exceptional transmission of plastids and mitochondria from the transplastomic pollen parent and its impact on transgene containment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, 7003-7008
Papers on economic impact of coexistence regulation in Europe