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Genetic load and transgenic mitigating genes in transgenic Brassica rapa (field mustard) × Brassica napus (oilseed rape) hybrid populations by Christy W Rose; Reginald J Millwood; Hong S Moon; Murali R Rao; Matthew D Halfhill; Paul L Raymer; Suzanne I Warwick; Hani Al-Ahmad; Jonathan Gressel; C Neal Stewart is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract ## Background One theoretical explanation for the relatively poor performance of__Brassica rapa__(weed) ×__Brassica napus__(crop) transgenic hybrids suggests that hybridization imparts a negative genetic load. Consequently, in hybrids genetic load could overshadow any benefits of fitness enhancing transgenes and become the limiting factor in transgenic hybrid persistence. Two types of genetic load were analyzed in this study: random/linkage-derived genetic load, and directly incorporated genetic load using a transgenic mitigation (TM) strategy. In order to measure the effects of random genetic load, hybrid productivity (seed yield and biomass) was correlated with crop- and weed-specific AFLP genomic markers. This portion of the study was designed to answer whether or not weed × transgenic crop hybrids possessing more crop genes were less competitive than hybrids containing fewer crop genes. The effects of directly incorporated genetic load (TM) were analyzed through transgene persistence data. TM strategies are proposed to decrease transgene persistence if gene flow and subsequent transgene introgression to a wild host were to occur. ## Results In the absence of intersp
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- Author
- Christy W Rose; Reginald J Millwood; Hong S Moon; Murali R Rao; Matthew D Halfhill; Paul L Raymer; Suzanne I Warwick; Hani Al-Ahmad; Jonathan Gressel; C Neal Stewart
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1472-6750)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)