Intrachromosomal recombination between attP regions as a tool to remove selectable marker genes from tobacco transgenes

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 442-445

  Zubko, Elena ^a   Scutt, Charles ^a,b   Meyer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Homologous recombination; Resistance marker; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA INTEGRATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0034101806     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74515     Document Type: Article

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