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This project was supported by Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grant Program competitive grant no. 2011-68005-30407 and 2010-33522-21736, from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Agricultural Research Service, National Science Foundation I/UCRC Center for Advanced Forestry (grant 0736283), USDA-IFAS (grant OREZ-FS-671-R), the J. Frank Schmidt Charitable Foundation, and the TBGRC industrial cooperative at Oregon State University. We thank E. Esfandiari of Oregon State University for her assistance in testing the PaLFY qRT-PCR primers and the many Oregon State University undergraduate students who took part in field-site maintenance and data collection.
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S.H.S. oversaw the work and led the grant proposal that funded the research program; D.Z., A.L.K., K.A., J.H., H.L., R.M., O.S., C.M., M.D., S.R., A.M., and A.M.B. conducted the experiments; A.L.K., J.H., G.H., and A.M. analyzed the data; A.L.K. and S.H.S. wrote the manuscript.
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S.H.S. has directed a university- and industry-funded research consortium (TBGRC) based at Oregon State University for more than two decades. Its work is directed at producing solutions to the problems of gene dispersal from genetically engineered and exotic trees.
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Klocko, A., Brunner, A., Huang, J. et al. Containment of transgenic trees by suppression of LEAFY. Nat Biotechnol 34, 918–922 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3636
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