Rapid and proven production of transplastomic tobacco plants by restoration of pigmentation and photosynthesis

Plant Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 811-821

  Klaus, Sebastian M J ^a   Huang, Fong Chin ^a   Eibl, Christian ^a   Koop, Hans Ulrich ^a   Golds, Timothy J ^a  

^a Icon Genetics AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic selection; Chloroplast mutants; petA; rpoA; Tobacco plastid transformation; ycf3

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS; TOBACCO;

VISUAL SCREENING SYSTEMS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYLL; DNA PRIMERS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VECTORS; MUTAGENESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0141678881     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01838.x     Document Type: Article

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