The role of heterologous chloroplast sequence elements in transgene integration and expression

Plant Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2088-2104

  Ruhlman, Tracey ^a   Verma, Dheeraj ^a   Samson, Nalapalli ^a   Daniell, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77950526756     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.152017     Document Type: Article

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