Identification of functional lox sites in the plastid genome

Plant Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 753-762

  Corneille, Sylvie ^a,b   Lutz, Kerry A ^a   Azhagiri, Arun K ^a   Maliga, Pal ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

CRE recombinase; Genome rearrangement; Lox site; Plastid transformation; Recombination; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA; TOBACCO;

CYCLIZATION RECOMBINATION (CRE);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BIOLISTICS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, PLANT; PLASTIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0141678891     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01845.x     Document Type: Article

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