The nutritional quality of maize and soybean seeds is improved by embryo-specific silencing of an ABC transporter.
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V.R. is the inventor and the US Department of Agriculture is the assignee for US patent no. 5,689,054, “Low phytic acid mutants and selection thereof.” V.R. also has grants, cooperations and confidentiality agreements in this area of research.
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Raboy, V. The ABCs of low-phytate crops. Nat Biotechnol 25, 874–875 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0807-874
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