FLP recombinase-mediated site-specific recombination in rice

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 176-188

  Hu, Qian ^a,b   Kononowicz Hodges, Halina ^b,c   Nelson Vasilchik, Kimberly ^b   Viola, David ^d   Zeng, Peiyu ^d   Liu, Haibo ^a   Kausch, Albert P ^d   Chandlee, Joel M ^d   Hodges, Thomas K ^b,c   Luo, Hong ^a,b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HybriGene Inc   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

glucuronidase; FLP FRT; Hybrid; Particle bombardment; Rice; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DNA POLYMERASE; PLANT DNA; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 37749039657     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2007.00310.x     Document Type: Article

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