GM maize from site-specific recombination technology, what next?

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-120

  Ow, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

PLANT GENOMES; SITE SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL CAPABILITIES;

CROPS;

DNA MARKER; RECOMBINASE;

GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; LY038; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FORECASTING; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, PLANT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; ZEA MAYS;

CORN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34147154916     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2007.02.004     Document Type: Review

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