Frequent collinear long transfer of DNA inclusive of the whole binary vector during Agrobacterium-mediated transformation

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 913-922

  Wenck, Allan ^a,b   Czakó, Mihály ^a   Kanevski, Ivan ^a,c   Márton, László ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Biomedical Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Arabidopsis thaliana; Nicotiana plumbaginifolia; Root transformation; T DNA transfer; Vacuum infiltration

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; PROTOPLAST; RHIZOBIUM; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASMIDS; PROTOPLASTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA PLUMBAGINIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0031214529     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005849303333     Document Type: Article

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