Transfer and expression of an artificial storage protein (ASP1) gene in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)

Transgenic Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-250

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Jaynes, Jesse M ^b   Potrykus, Ingo ^a   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^a   Puonti Kaerlas, Johanna ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Chairman of the NovaTero Foundation   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Germany)

Author keywords

asp1; Genetic transformation; Manihot esculenta; Storage root quality; Synthetic storage protein

Indexed keywords

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME, PLANT; MANIHOT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MANIHOT; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0038394634     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022918925882     Document Type: Article

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