Swiss inventors develop transcriptionally silenced plant genes
Date: 4.4.2006
Andrea Steimer of Zurich, Switzerland, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid of Basel, Switzerland, and Jerzy Paszkowski of Nenzlingen, Switzerland, have developed transcriptionally silenced plant genes.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to gene silencing as observed after integration of transgenes into plant genomes. Transcription of transcriptionally silent information (TSI) can be used as a marker to identify a defective silencing pathway in a plant."
"Source":[ http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsletter&topic_id=1&subtopic_id=1&doc_id=12370].
