See Also: plants, transgenic(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
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plants, edible(medicine)
plants, medicinal(medicine)
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Transgenic(medicine)
transgenic(dictionary)

plants, transgenic (medicine)


plants, transgenic
Plants into which genetic material from another species has been transferred. The technique most frequently applied makes use of a natural plant-directed gene vector, the gram-negative soil bacterium agrobacterium tumefaciens. A second system more analogous to those used for transforming mammalian cell lines is the direct transfer of DNA into plant protoplasts, for example by electroporation or polyethylene glycol treatment.