Use of Ac as an insertional mutagen in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 935-945

  Bhatt, Anuj M ^a   Page, Tania ^a   Lawson, Emily J R ^a,b   Lister, Clare ^a   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Avitech Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030159795     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.9060935.x     Document Type: Article

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