Tandem constructs to mitigate transgene persistence: Tobacco as a model

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 697-710

  Al Ahmad, Hani ^a   Galili, Shmuel ^b   Gressel, Jonathan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dwarfism; Gene introgression; Herbicide resistance; Tandem constructs; Tobacco; Transgenic mitigation

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; GAI PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS, POPULATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 1342332715     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2004.02092.x     Document Type: Article

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