Green fluorescent protein as a vital elimination marker to easily screen marker-free transgenic progeny derived from plants co-transformed with a double T-DNA binary vector system

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 625-631

  Chen, Songbiao ^a,b   Li, Xugang ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a   Xu, Hongling ^a   Meng, Kun ^a   Xiao, Guifang ^a   Wei, Xiaoli ^a   Wang, Feng ^b   Zhu, Zhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Co transformation; Double T DNA vector; Green fluorescent protein; Marker free; Nicotiana tabacum

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; PROTEINS; TOBACCO; VECTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS STRAINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS (GFP); MARKER GENES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FLUORESCENCE; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM; TABACUM;

EID: 13844276189     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-004-0853-4     Document Type: Article

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