Engineered minichromosomes in plants

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 135-147

  Birchler, James A ^a   Krishnaswamy, Lakshminarasimhan ^a   Gaeta, Robert T ^a   Masonbrink, Rick E ^a   Zhao, Changzeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial chromosomes; Centromeres; Genetic engineering; Site specific recombination; Synthetic biology; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77952467616     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: 15497836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352681003709918     Document Type: Article

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