Herbicide resistance of tobacco chloroplasts expressing the bar gene

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-66

  Kang, Tae Jin ^a   Seo, Jo Eun ^b   Loc, Nguyen Hoang ^c   Yang, Moon Sik ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c HUE UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Bar; Chloroplast Transformation; Herbicide Resistance; Phosphinothricin Acetyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHINOTHRICIN; PHOSPHINOTHRICIN DERIVATIVE; AMINOBUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HERBICIDE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOBACCO; CYTOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; CHLOROPLASTS; GENETIC VECTORS; HERBICIDES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TOBACCO;

EID: 3042782058     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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