Production of transgenic indica rice resistant to yellow stem borer and sap-sucking insects, using super-binary vectors of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Plant Science

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1077-1085

  Ramesh, S ^a   Nagadhara, D ^a   Reddy, V D ^a   Rao, K V ^a  

^a OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation; Cry genes; Herbicide resistance gene; Indica rice; Snowdrop lectin gene; Super binary vectors

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECT CONTROL; VECTORS;

GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION PROTOCOLS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; GALANTHUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORYZA SATIVA; RHIZOBIUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1542321138     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2003.12.028     Document Type: Article

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