Construction and genetic analysis of mutator insertion mutant population in maize

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2604-2610

  Liu, Wenting ^a   Gao, Youjun ^a   Teng, Feng ^a   Shi, Qing ^a   Zheng, Yonglian ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Maize (Zea Mays L.); MuTAIL PCR; Mutant populations; Mutator transposon

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33751378206     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2141-x     Document Type: Article

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