The behaviour of the autonomous maize transposable element En/Spm in Arabidopsis thaliana allows efficient mutagenesis

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 989-999

  Wisman, Ellen ^a   Cardon, Guillermo H ^a   Fransz, Paul ^a   Saedler, Heinz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; En 1; Evolution; Mutagenesis; Transposable element

Indexed keywords

DNA ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TAGGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; MAIZE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032146398     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006082009151     Document Type: Article

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