Site-specific excisional recombination strategies for elimination of undesirable transgenes from crop plants

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 457-467

  Gidoni, David ^a   Srivastava, Vibha ^b   Carmi, Nir ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto excision; Inducible promoters; Marker free; Site specific recombination; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 60049097464     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11627-008-9140-3     Document Type: Review

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