A new moss genetics: Targeted mutagenesis in Physcomitrella patens

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2002, Pages 477-501

  Schaefer, Didier G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Gene targeting; Homologous recombination; Model system

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRYOPSIDA; GENE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; REVIEW;

BRYOPSIDA; GENE TARGETING; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0037004346     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.53.100301.135202     Document Type: Review

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