Molecular and cytogenetic analyses of stably and unstably expressed transgene loci in tobacco

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1251-1264

  Iglesias, Victor A ^a,c   Moscone, Eduardo A ^a,d   Papp, István ^a   Neuhuber, Franz ^a   Michalowski, Susan ^b   Phelan, Thomas ^b   Spiker, Steven ^b   Matzke, Marjori ^a   Matzke, Antonius J M ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOGENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0031201002     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.8.1251     Document Type: Article

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