The repair of double-strand breaks in plants: Mechanisms and consequences for genome evolution

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 56, Issue 409, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Puchta, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Deletion formation; Gene conversion; Homologous recombination; I Scel; Non homologous end joining; Single strand annealing; Synthesis dependent strand annealing; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CELLS; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS (DSB); HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATIONS (HR); NON-HOMOLOGOUS END-JOINING (NHEJ); PLANTS CELLS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 11444267813     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eri025     Document Type: Review

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