Rice transgenic resources with gain-of-function phenotypes

Breeding Science

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 493-501

  Tsuchida Mayama, Tomoko ^a   Nakamura, Hidemitsu ^a,b   Hakata, Makoto ^a,c   Ichikawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activation tagging; FOX hunting system; Full length cDNA; Functional genomics; Gain of function; Rice (Oryza sativa L.); Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 78751489374     PISSN: 13447610     EISSN: 13473735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.60.493     Document Type: Review

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