Cre recombinase expression can result in phenotypic aberrations in plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-279

  Coppoolse, Eric R ^a,b   De Vroomen, Marianne J ^a   Roelofs, Dick ^a   Smit, Jaap ^a   Van Gennip, Femke ^a   Hersmus, Bart J M ^a   Nijkamp, H John J ^a   Van Haaren, Mark J J ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KEYGENE N V   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cre recombinase; lox P; Petunia; Site specific recombination; Tobacco; Tomato; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

GENES; RNA; TISSUE;

LEAVES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, PLANT; INTEGRASES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUTATION; PETUNIA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TOBACCO; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PETUNIA;

EID: 0037275383     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021174726070     Document Type: Article

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