Effect of ploidy and homozygosity on transgene expression in primary tobacco transformants and their androgenetic progenies

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 260, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 362-371

  Beaujean, A ^a   Sangwan, R S ^a   Hodges, M ^b   Sangwan Norreel, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Haploids; Heterozygous; Homozygous; Ploidy; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; COLCHICINE; NEOMYCIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLOIDIES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0031743758     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050905     Document Type: Article

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