Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation: The biology behind the "gene-jockeying" tool

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-37

  Gelvin, Stanton B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRUS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037337257     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.67.1.16-37.2003     Document Type: Review

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