T-DNA intergration into the Arabidopsis genome depends on sequences of pre-insertion sites

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1152-1157

  Brunaud, Véronique ^e   Balzergue, Sandrine ^e   Dubreucq, Bertrand ^a   Aubourg, Sébastien ^e   Samson, Franck ^e   Chauvin, Stéphanie ^e   Bechtold, Nicole ^b,f   Cruaud, Corinne ^c   DeRose, Richard ^d   Pelletier, Georges ^b   Lepiniec, Loïc ^a   Caboche, Michel ^e   Lecharny, Alain ^e  

^a Laboratoire de Biologie des Semences   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^d RhoBio   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^f Usine des Molecules Recombinantes   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PLANT DNA; DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

3' FLANKING REGION; 5' FLANKING REGION; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0036958494     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf237     Document Type: Article

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