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Science 27 August 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5432, pp. 1347 - 1349
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1347
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INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS MEETING:
New Ways to Glean Medicines From Plants

Trisha Gura

ST. LOUIS--Among the developments featured at the XVI International Botanical Congress, held here early this month, were two new approaches for getting plants to serve as protein factories. In one, plant roots were induced to secrete the proteins, while another used tobacco mosaic virus to ferry new genes into plants.

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