Selectable marker-free transgenic plants without sexual crossing: Transient expression of cre recombinase and use of a conditional lethal dominant gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-235

  Gleave, Andrew P ^a   Mitra, Deepali S ^a   Mudge, Stephen R ^a   Morris, Bret A M ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conditional lethal dominant gene; Cre loxP; Nicotiana tabacum; Site specific recombinase; Transformation; Transient expression

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CROSSING; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FLUCYTOSINE; FLUOROURACIL; GENOTYPE; HYGROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENOME; REGENERATION; SELFING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

ANTIMETABOLITES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, PLANT; FLUCYTOSINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; INTEGRASES; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0033136204     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006184221051     Document Type: Article

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