Impact of feed processing and mixed ruminal culture on the fate of recombinant EPSP synthase and endogenous canola plant DNA

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 263-269

  Alexander, Trevor W ^a,b   Sharma, Ranjana ^a   Okine, Erasmus K ^b   Dixon, Walter T ^b   Forster, Robert J ^a   Stanford, Kim ^c   McAllister, Tim A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Batch culture; EPSP synthase; Genetically modified; Ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase; Roundup Ready; Rumen

Indexed keywords

3 PHOSPHOSHIKIMATE 1 CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED;

3-PHOSPHOSHIKIMATE 1-CARBOXYVINYLTRANSFERASE; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BRASSICA; DNA, PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RUMEN;

BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS;

EID: 0037057141     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00893-5     Document Type: Article

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