Resistance breeding against Plum pox virus (PPV) in Austria: state of the art (original) (raw)

The background of the “Austrian situation” concerning field trials, and the legal framework for working with GMOs in contained systems and for intended release will be reported. We describe our work with GMOs, started in the late 80’s, and continued in the ongoing project “Characterisation of transgenic fruit trees and analyses of direct and indirect biological interactions”, approved by the Austrian Ministries of Science and Agriculture in 2000. Transgenic trees of the genus Prunus were selected as model organisms to study the performance of woody GMOs over a period of five years. Other institutes from our University were invited to submit projects on biosafety aspects of transgenic trees. Experimental approaches and some results will be presented.

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