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Nature 459, 337-338 (21 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/459337a; Published online 20 May 2009
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Plant biotechnology: Zinc fingers on target
Matthew H. Porteus1
Abstract
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.
Go into any supermarket in the developed world, and you would be sure that we live in a world of plenty. Yet elsewhere on the globe tens of thousands of people die every day from starvation, and today, as much as ever, ways of improving food production are needed.
- Matthew H. Porteus is in the Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA.
Email: matthew.porteus@utsouthwestern.edu
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