Agricultural industrial applications
Field trials and commercial releases[add a comment]
Like the nptII marker gene, hpt has been used as a selectable marker gene for transgenic plants, but it is not an agronomic trait of interest in modified plants. It is one of the introduced genes needed to accomplish the production of transformed plants.[add a comment]
According to information provided by BioTrack, a database administered by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) containing records of field trials and commercial releases in OECD Member countries (currently 30), several cultivars of rapeseed, alfalfa and canola submitted to field trials in the United States and Canada between 1989 and 1996 contained hygromycin phosphotransferase as a selectable marker gene.[add a comment]
In Australia, several varieties of barley, wheat, grapevine, Indian mustard and poppy, engineered for viral tolerance, fungal resistance, improvement of fruit quality and insect resistance contain a hygromycin phosphotransferase gene. These crops are being tested in field trials and have not been commercially released yet.[add a comment]
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