Dosage-dependent gene expression from direct repeat locus in rice developed by site-specific gene integration

Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-23

  Akbudak, M Aydin ^a   More, Anjali B ^a   Nandy, Soumen ^a   Srivastava, Vibha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre lox; Gene dosage; GUS and GFP expressions; Rice transformation; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

COPY NUMBER; EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; GENE DOSAGE; GFP EXPRESSION; GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IN-PLANTS; INTEGRATION APPROACH; INTEGRATION METHOD; INVERTED REPEAT; PLANT TRANSFORMATION; REPORTER GENE; SITE-SPECIFIC; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION; STANDARD METHOD; TRANSGENE COPY NUMBERS; TRANSGENE EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC RICE;

INTEGRATION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENE EXPRESSION;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CALLUS CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; RICE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC CROP; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC LOCI; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77954818959     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-009-9235-z     Document Type: Article

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