Engineered plant minichromosomes: A bottom-up success?

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-10

  Houben, Andreas ^a   Dawe, R Kelly ^b   Jiang, Jiming ^c   Schubert, Ingo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS;

EID: 43549099358     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.056622     Document Type: Note

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