Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Transplastomic plant”
One such technology that has been implemented is the Cre/lox system, where the nuclear encoded Cre recombinase can be placed under control of an inducible promoter to remove the antibiotic resistant gene once homoplasmicity has been achieved from the transformation process.[source retracted]
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Development of selectable marker free, insect resistant, transgenic mustard (Brassica juncea) plants using Cre/loxmediated recombination
Arpita Bala, Amit Roy, Ayan Das, Dipankar Chakraborti et al.
BMC Biotechnology · published October 2013 · cited 22 times by other papers
Retracted Oct 17, 2025
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