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| Magid, Jakob; Rasmussen, Lasse Dam; Moeller, Jacob. |
| The experiments show that composting of GM plant residues greatly increases the rate of degradation of transgenic DNA compared to the rate for plant residues left in the soil. If the persistence of transgenic DNA in the environments is considered as the only risk factor, composting is a 'DNA-safe' method to treat GM plant residues. However, even though transgenic plant DNA was not detected in bacterial isolates in our experiments, we cannot conclude that horizontal gene transfer can not take place. The 300 isolates tested proved to be too low a number to be conclusive. The numbers of isolates tested were based on the screenings indicating high transfer, but the screenings were biased apparently because some Bacillus species gave PCR products matching the... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Recycling; Balancing and resource management. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/3622/1/3622.pdf |
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