Chilton had made a substantial contribution to this project by designing a vehicle for the transgene characterizing the Ti plasmid, and now she took a crucial step by showing that it was possible to obtain a whole plant not just a single cell that had the transgene in its genome.
Chilton había hecho un aporte sustancial a tal proyecto al contribuir a diseñar el vehículo del transgén caracterizando al plásmido Ti, y ahora daba un paso decisivo al mostrar que se podía obtener una planta entera no sólo una célula que tuviera en su genoma al transgén.