High transformation frequency of tobacco and rice via Agrobacterium- mediated gene transfer by flanking a tobacco matrix attachment region

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 644-651

  Zhang, Meng Meng ^a,b   Ji, Lu Sha ^a   Xue, Hua ^a   Yang, Yu Tao ^a   Wu, Chang Ai ^a   Zheng, Cheng Chao ^a  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiaxing Entry Exit Inspection and Quanrantine Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CROPS; DNA; GENE TRANSFER;

AGROBACTERIUM-MEDIATED TRANSFORMATION; NUCLEAR MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGIONS (MAR); TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTER; TRANSGENE EXPRESSION;

TOBACCO;

GENES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RICE; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 33846936216     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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