Improved Agrobacterium-mediated co-transformation and selectable marker elimination in transgenic rice by using a high copy number pBin19-derived binary vector

Plant Science

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 766-774

  Sripriya, Rajasekaran ^a   Sangeetha, Manoharan ^a   Parameswari, Chidambaram ^a   Veluthambi, Balamani ^a   Veluthambi, Karuppannan ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Co transformation; Marker elimination; Oryza sativa; Osmotin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; HYGROMYCIN B KINASE; HYGROMYCIN-B KINASE; OSMOTIN PROTEIN, NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; T DNA; T-DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; PLASMID; RHIZOBIUM; RICE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONIDASE; ORYZA SATIVA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM; SELECTION, GENETIC; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ORYZA SATIVA; PUSA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 79954595929     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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