Molecular analysis of Agrobacterium T-DNA integration in tomato reveals a role for left border sequence homology in most integration events

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 278, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 411-420

  Thomas, Colwyn M ^a   Jones, Jonathan D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Sequence homology; T DNA integration

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HETERODUPLEX; PLANT DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ASPEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; POPULUS TREMULA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 34548811428     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0259-4     Document Type: Article

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