Methylation of chloroplast DNA does not affect viability and maternal inheritance in tobacco and may provide a strategy towards transgene containment

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1377-1384

  Jaffé, Benjamin ^a   Kovács, Katalin ^a   Andras, Calin ^a   Bódi, Zsuzsanna ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Fray, Rupert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chloroplast transformation; DNA methylation; Gene containment; Transplastomic

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASE FOKI; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE FOKI; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE SPECIFIC); TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA METHYLATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC VECTORS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 46649108906     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-008-0567-0     Document Type: Article

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