Transgenic tobacco plants expressing atzA exhibit resistance and strong ability to degrade atrazine

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1391-1399

  Wang, Huizhuan ^a   Chen, Xiwen ^a   Xing, Xuguang ^a   Hao, Xiaohua ^a   Chen, Defu ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Atrazine chlorohydrolase; atzA; Phytoremediation; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ATRAZINE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; HERBICIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARTHROBACTER; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP. ADP; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 78349305349     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0924-7     Document Type: Article

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