Trans-kingdom conjugation between Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a bacterium and a yeast

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-106

  Sawasaki, Yukiko ^a   Inomata, Koji ^a   Yoshida, Kazuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Conjugative plasmids; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Ti plasmid; Trans kingdom conjugation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CROSS BREEDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; PLASMID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSSES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029688836     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a028906     Document Type: Article

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