Complex transgene locus structures implicate multiple mechanisms for plant transgene rearrangement

Plant Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 433-445

  Svitashev, Sergei K ^a   Pawlowski, Wojciech P ^a,b   Makarevitch, Irina ^a   Plank, David W ^a   Somers, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Double strand break (DSB) repair; Genetic engineering; Microprojectile bombardment; Non homologous end joining (NHEJ); Oat; Transgene locus structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GENOMIC FRAGMENTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AVENA SATIVA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

AVENA; AVENA SATIVA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0038307860     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01433.x     Document Type: Article

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