Messenger DNA in higher plants

Cell Biochem Funct. 2003 Sep;21(3):207-9. doi: 10.1002/cbf.1074.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biological Transport
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • DNA, Plant / genetics
  • DNA, Plant / physiology*
  • Gene Transfer, Horizontal
  • Plants / genetics*
  • Transfection

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial
  • DNA, Plant