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What is the plant selectable marker used for the transformation?

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What is the plant selectable marker used for the transformation?

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The marker is NTPII (kanamycin resistance). However after several generations of growth, some of the lines show silencing of this gene. Thus, it is not unusual for a mutant line to not express the drug resistance phenotype.