Selectable marker elimination in the T0 generation by Agrobacterium-mediated co-transformation involving Mungbean yellow mosaic virus TrAP as a non-conditional negative selectable marker and bar for transient positive selection

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 473-483

  RamanaRao, Mangu Venkata ^a   Veluthambi, Karuppannan ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Co transformation; Compatible binary vectors; Marker free transgenic plants; Non conditional negative selectable marker; Transient selection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOSAIC VIRUS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRUS GENE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOSAIC VIRUSES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; MUNGBEAN YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 77952423669     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0836-6     Document Type: Article

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