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Fast-track for engineered plants

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A rapid method to introduce gene edits advances plant science.

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Fig. 1: Methods for delivery of transgenes and gene edits to plants.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA

    Oliver Xiaoou Dong & Pamela C. Ronald

  2. Innovative Genomics Institute, Berkeley, California, USA

    Oliver Xiaoou Dong & Pamela C. Ronald

  3. Joint Energy Institute, Emeryville, California, USA

    Oliver Xiaoou Dong & Pamela C. Ronald

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Dong, O.X., Ronald, P.C. Fast-track for engineered plants. Nat Biotechnol 38, 32–34 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0371-0

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