Generation of marker- and backbone-free transgenic potatoes by site-specific recombination and a bi-functional marker gene in a non-regular one-border Agrobacterium transformation vector

Transgenic Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 729-737

  Kondrák, Mihály ^a   Van Der Meer, Ingrid M ^b   Bánfalvi, Zsófia ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backbone free transgenic plants; codA nptII; Marker free transgenic plants; R Rs; Recombination; Solanaceae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; POTATO; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE DOSAGE; GENE TARGETING; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RHIZOBIUM; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES ROUXII;

EID: 33751518038     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-006-9021-7     Document Type: Article

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