Transgenic chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) expressing a sequence-modified cry2Aa gene

Plant Science

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-339

  Acharjee, Sumita ^a   Sarmah, Bidyut Kumar ^a   Kumar, P Ananda ^b   Olsen, Karen ^c   Mahon, Rod ^c   Moar, William J ^d   Moore, Andy ^c   Higgins, T J V ^c  

^a ASSAM AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transformation; Bt chickpea; Cicer arietinum; cry2Aa gene; Transgenic chickpea; Twin T DNA binary vector

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; ARABIDOPSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CICER ARIETINUM; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HEXAPODA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 77349125790     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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