Use of a herbicide or lysine plus threonine for non-antibiotic selection of transgenic chickpea

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 576-583

  Tewari Singh, N ^a   Sen, J ^a   Kiesecker, H ^b   Reddy, V S ^c   Jacobsen, H J ^b   Guha Mukherjee, S ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Aspartate kinase; Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.); Lysine plus threonine; Phosphinothricin; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; ENZYMES; GENES; HERBICIDES; TISSUE;

SOUTHERN HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSGENIC SHOOTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINOBUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ASPARTATE KINASE; LYSINE; PHOSPHINOTHRICIN; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; CHICKPEA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; ASPARTATE KINASE; CICER; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; LYSINE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REGENERATION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; THREONINE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

AGROBACTERIUM; CICER; CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 1542440150     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-003-0730-6     Document Type: Article

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