Expression and immunolocalisation of the snowdrop lectin, GNA in transgenic rice plants

Transgenic Research

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 371-378

  Sudhakar, Duraialagaraja ^a   Fu, Xiangdong ^a   Stoger, Eva ^a   Williams, Sarah ^a   Spence, Jacqui ^b   Brown, David P ^b   Bharathi, Muthusamy ^b   Gatehouse, John A ^b   Christou, Paul ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GNA; Immunolocalisation; Particle bombardment; Rice transformation

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; HERBICIDE PRODUCTION; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LECTIN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; SUCROSE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECTICIDES; LECTINS; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT LECTINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032170838     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008856703464     Document Type: Article

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