Integration of T-DNA binary vector 'backbone' sequences into the tobacco genome: Evidence for multiple complex patterns of integration

Plant Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 945-957

  Kononov, Maria E ^a   Bassuner, Burgund ^a   Gelvin, Stanton B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONIDASE; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031149306     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.11050945.x     Document Type: Article

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