Cre-loxP mediated marker elimination and gene reactivation at the waxy locus created in rice genome based on strong positive-negative selection

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-37

  Terada, Rie ^a   Nagahara, Miki ^a,b   Furukawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Shimamoto, Miki ^a   Yamaguchi, Katsushi ^a   Iida, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cre loxP; Gene targeting; Rice; Site specific recombination; Waxy

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 77952908766     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.27.29     Document Type: Article

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