Survival of free DNA encoding antibiotic resistance from transgenic maize and the transformation activity of DNA in ovine saliva, ovine rumen fluid and silage effluent

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-77

  Duggan, Paula S ^a   Chambers, Philip A ^a   Heritage, John ^a   Forbes, J Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Leeds Inst Plant Biotech A   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; DNA survival; Horizontal gene transfer; Transformation efficiency; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EFFLUENT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINANT STOMACH; SALIVA; SHEEP; STOMACH JUICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMAL; DNA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMEN; SALIVA; SHEEP; SILAGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; ZEA MAYS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034307859     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00372-4     Document Type: Article

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