Targeted integration and removal of transgenes in hybrid aspen (Populus tremula L. x P. tremuloides Michx.) using site-specific recombination systems

Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 334-340

  Fladung, M ^a   Becker, D ^b  

^a Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cassette exchange; Cre lox; Excision, marker free transgenic plants; FLP FRT; Poplar

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; INTEGRASE;

ANTIBIOTICS; CLONE; DICOTYLEDON; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MARKER; HEAT SHOCK; PLASMID; RECOMBINATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ASPEN; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; INTEGRASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; POPULUS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

GLYCINE MAX; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 77952511449     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: 14388677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00293.x     Document Type: Review

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