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Biosafety implications of selectable marker genes that are integrated into the transgenic plants are discussed. In the laboratory, selectable marker genes are used at two stages to distinguish transformed cells out of a large population of nontransformed cells: 1) initial assembly of gene cassettes is generally done in E. coli on easily manipulatable plasmid vectors that contain the selectable marker...