Transgene integration, organization and interaction in plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-258

  Kohli, Ajay ^a   Twyman, Richard M ^b   Abranches, Rita ^c   Wegel, Eva ^c   Stoger, Eva ^d   Christou, Paul ^e  

^a Rexagen Corporation   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cereal transformation; Clean DNA; Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH); Transgene integration; Transgene organization

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

TRANSGENE INTEGRATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0038199840     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023941407376     Document Type: Short Survey

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