Using firefly luciferase to identify the transition from transient to stable expression in bombarded wheat scutellar tissue

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 447-453

  Lonsdale, David M ^a   Lindup, Suzanne ^a   Moisan, Lisa J ^a   Harvey, Alison J ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bar; Biolistics; Luciferase; PPT; Transformation; Triticum aestivum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; FIREFLY; IDENTIFICATION; LUCIFERASE; REGENERATION; SCUTELLUM; TRANSGENE; WHEAT;

EID: 0031748117     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1020313.x     Document Type: Article

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