Prospects for the precise engineering of plant genomes by homologous recombination

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 749-758

  Mengiste, Tesfaye ^a   Paszkowski, Jerzy ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DNA repair; Homologous recombination; Plant mutants

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; DATA BASE; DNA INTEGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE TARGETING; GENOME, PLANT; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032875939     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.095     Document Type: Review

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