Monitoring the spread of recombinant DNA from field plots with transgenic sugar beet plants by PCR and natural transformation of Pseudomonas stutzeri

Transgenic Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 293-304

  Meier, Petra ^a   Wackernagel, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring of DNA; DNA persistence; Pollen dispersal; Pseudomonas stutzeri; Sugar beet; Transgenic plant DNA

Indexed keywords

BETA VULGARIS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; SOIL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; CANNABIS SATIVA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 0038733736     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023317104119     Document Type: Article

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