Structure of the natural transgene pgic2 in the common grass Festuca ovina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Vallenback, Pernilla ^a   Ghatnekar, Lena ^a   Bengtsson, Bengt O ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSPOSITION; FESCUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PGIC2 GENE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; POA; POLYPLOIDY; TRANSGENE; GENETICS; POACEAE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

FESTUCA OVINA; POA; POA PALUSTRIS; POACEAE;

GENES, PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POACEAE;

EID: 78149463524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013529     Document Type: Article

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