Excision of the maize transposable element Ac in periclinal chimeric leaves of 35S-Ac-rolC transgenic aspen-Populus

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1097-1103

  Fladung, Matthias ^a   Ahuja, M Raj ^a  

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

Author keywords

Ac; Agrobacterium; periclinal chimera; rolC; transgenic Populus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CYTOKININ BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CYTOKININ-BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; PLANT LEAF; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPOSON; TREE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; CHIMERA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, PLANT; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TREES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031127989     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005788706864     Document Type: Article

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