Site-Specific Integration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA via Double-Stranded Intermediates

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1011-1023

  Tzfira, Tzvi ^a   Frankman, Leah Renée ^b   Vaidya, Manjusha ^a   Citovsky, Vitaly ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Westhampton Beach High School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TOBACCO;

GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0345014810     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.032128     Document Type: Article

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