Bioengineered ‘golden’ indica rice cultivars with β-carotene metabolism in the endosperm with hygromycin and mannose selection systems

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81-90

  Datta, Karabi ^a   Baisakh, Niranjan ^a   Oliva, Norman ^a   Torrizo, Lina ^a   Abrigo, Editha ^a   Tan, Jing ^a   Rai, Mayank ^a   Rehana, Sayda ^a   Al Babili, Salim ^b   Beyer, Peter ^b   Potrykus, Ingo ^c   Datta, Swapan K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

biolistic transformation; cestrum promoter; golden indica rice; phosphomannose isomerase; provitamin A; carotene

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542353856     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-7652.2003.00015.x     Document Type: Article

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