Transformation of Arabidopsis by mutated acetolactate synthase genes from rice and Arabidopsis that confer specific resistance to pyrimidinylcarboxylate-type ALS inhibitors

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-84

  Kawai, Kiyoshi ^a   Kaku, Koichiro ^a   Izawa, Norihiko ^a   Shimizu, Masanori ^b   Kobayashi, Hirokazu ^b   Shimizu, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KUMIAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetolactate synthase; Pyrimidinylcarboxylate; Selectable marker gene

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 77952928386     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.27.75     Document Type: Article

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