Asexual production of selectable marker-free transgenic woody plants, vegetatively propagated species

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 95-106

  Matsunaga, Etsuko ^a   Sugita, Koichi ^a   Ebinuma, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspen; Glutathione S transferase; Isopentenyltransferase; Marker free transgenic; Site specific recombination; Transformation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; PEPTIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); VECTORS;

ASPEN; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES; ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE; MARKER-FREE; MARKER-FREE TRANSGENIC; SELECTABLE MARKERS; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION; TRANSFORMATION; TRANSGENICS; WOODY PLANTS;

GENES;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; POPULUS; POPULUS GRANDIDENTATA; POPULUS SIEBOLDII; POPULUS SIEBOLDII X POPULUS GRANDIDENTATA; RHIZOBIUM; ZEA MAYS; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES ROUXII;

EID: 0036380702     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020308216747     Document Type: Article

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