Tomato is a suitable material for producing recombinant miraculin protein in genetically stable manner

Plant Science

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 469-473

  Yano, Megumu ^a   Hirai, Tadayoshi ^a   Kato, Kazuhisa ^a   Hiwasa Tanase, Kyoko ^a   Fukuda, Naoya ^a   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Miraculin; Recombinant protein; Stability of transgenes; Tomato; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77950338252     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2010.02.016     Document Type: Article

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