Particle-bombardment-mediated co-transformation of elite Chinese rice cultivars with genes conferring resistance to bacterial blight and sap-sucking insect pests

Planta

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 552-563

  Tang, Kexuan ^a,b   Tinjuangjun, Porntip ^b   Xu, Yanan ^a   Sun, Xiaofen ^a   Gatehouse, John A ^c   Ronald, Pamela C ^d   Qi, Huaxiong ^e   Lu, Xinggui ^e   Christou, Paul ^b   Kohli, Ajay ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial blight (Xa21 gene); Lectin (gna gene); Oryza (co transformation); Resistance genes (gna, Xa21)

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; BACTERIAL BLIGHT; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE TRANSFER; HYGROMYCIN PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PEST RESISTANCE; PLANT BREEDING; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; SNOWDROP LECTIN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

GALANTHUS NIVALIS; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0032805422     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050593     Document Type: Article

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