Engineered Plant Minichromosomes

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 701, Issue , 2011, Pages 131-146

  Gaeta, Robert T ^a   Krishnaswamy, Lakshminarasimhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial chromosome; Engineered minichromosome; Site specific recombination; Telomere mediated truncation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; PLANT CHROMOSOME; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79953777019     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61737-957-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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