Genetic transformation of the green alga - Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Plant Science

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 731-738

  Kumar, Sasidharanpillai Vinod ^a   Misquitta, Rachel William ^b   Reddy, Vanga Siva ^c   Rao, Basuthkar Jagadeeswar ^b   Rajam, Manchikatla Venkat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Chlamydomonas; Genetic transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA; ENZYMES; GENE TRANSFER; GENES;

GENES CODING; NUCLEAR INTEGRATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 1242276376     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2003.11.012     Document Type: Article

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