Messenger DNA in higher plants.
Evidence is presented that, as in animal and human cells, plant cells can release a newly-synthesized DNA which can freely circulate in the plants. This DNA enters cells and their nuclei where it may be integrated and be expressed so acting, apparently, as a messenger-DNA.
Gahan
Peter B
PB
School of Biomedical Sciences, Kings College London, London, UK.
D001692:Biological Transport; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D014162:Transfection
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D018744:DNA, Plant