Marker-free transgenic plants

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-134

  Puchta, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homologous recombination; Induction; Non homologous end joining; Screenable markers; Site specific recombination; Transformation; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HERBICIDES;

CHLOROPLAST GENOME;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0037704340     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023934807184     Document Type: Review

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