Transgenic potato plants can be used to evaluate stability of foreign genes: Reversions and chimeras in multiple copies of rolC harboring clones

Agronomie

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 113-121

  Fladung, M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chimera; Marker gene; rolC; Stability; Transgenic potato

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0000746717     PISSN: 02495627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/agro:19960205     Document Type: Article

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