Site-independently integrated transgenes in the elite restorer rice line Minghui 63 allow removal of a selectable marker from the gene of interest by self-segregation

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 155-165

  Tu, Jumin ^a,b   Datta, Karabi ^a   Oliva, Norman ^a   Zhang, Guoan ^c   Xu, Caiguo ^c   Khush, Gurdev Singh ^a   Zhang, Qifa ^c   Datta, Swapan Kumar ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Huazhong Agricultural University   (China)

Author keywords

cryIAb cryIAc; hybrid rice; independent locus integration; insect resistance; marker free transgenic plant; restorer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345274306     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-7652.2003.00012.x     Document Type: Article

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