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Zinc fingers on target

Nature volume 459, pages 337–338 (2009)Cite this article

The existing methods of creating genetically modified plants are inefficient and imprecise. Zinc-finger technology offers the prospect of opening up a swifter and more exact route for crop improvement.

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Figure 1: Site-specific endogenous gene modification with zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs).
Figure 2: Use of ZFNs to modify plant genes.

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  1. Matthew H. Porteus is in the Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA. matthew.porteus@utsouthwestern.edu,

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