Selectable antibiotic resistance marker gene-free transgenic rice harbouring the garlic leaf lectin gene exhibits resistance to sap-sucking planthoppers

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 261-271

  Sengupta, Subhadipa ^a   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a,b   Mondal, Hossain A ^a   Das, Sampa ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ST XAVIER S COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Allium sativum leaf agglutinin (ASAL); Brown planthopper (BPH); Cre lox recombination system; Green leafhopper (GLH); Rice (Oryza sativa L.) cv. IR64; Selectable antibiotic resistance marker

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; CICADELLIDAE; HEMIPTERA; NEPHOTETTIX VIRESCENS; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; ORYZA SATIVA;

AGGLUTININ; BACTERIAL DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GARLIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; METABOLISM; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGGLUTININS; ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GARLIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; HEMIPTERA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 77950944739     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0819-7     Document Type: Article

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