Resistance

transgenic plants do not control weeds per se. However, some (not all!) of transgenic plants have resistance to herbicides so they can be used in higher concentration and thus assure elimination of weeds with one time application.

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... bacterial infections are treated today (with antibiotics, or with combination of several antibiotics, because of the very same reason: acquired resistance). Woah,thank you so much for that. I honestly just entered "the realm of biology" a week or two ago(self taught), and I learned ...

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... bacterial infections are treated today (with antibiotics, or with combination of several antibiotics, because of the very same reason: acquired resistance).

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Hello, I'm wanting to generate markerless deletion mutants in my bacteria (A. baumannii) and am using a suicide vector (gentamicin resistance, SacB gene). My vector contains ~1.2kb of homologous sequences that flank both sides of my gene (~2.4kb homologous regions total). After selection ...

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... cell walls could recover and cells would grow. Translational inhibitors obviously would not work with this scheme as you would never make the resistance gene without recovery. My question is that I cannot remember who told me this and I have been unable to find the source of this information. ...

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