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SUBMITTER: Ko SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6854342 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ko Swee-Suak SS Liu Yao-Chung YC Chung Mei-Chu MC Shih Ming-Che MC Mohammadmehdi Habibi H Oguchi Taichi T Watanabe Kazuo N KN Yeh Kai-Wun KW
Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) 20190901 3
Hybrid <i>Oncidium</i> orchids, such as <i>Oncidium</i> Gower Ramsey and <i>Oncidium</i> "Honey Angel," are popular cut flowers in Japan and Taiwan. Due to pollen sterility, no new varieties have been created by conventional breeding methods. Recently, we employed RNA interference (RNAi) technology to suppress <i>phytoene synthase</i> and successfully modified floret hue from yellow to white (Liu et al. 2019). Transgenic white <i>Oncidium</i> orchids, Honey Snow MF-1, have been grown to test the ...[more]