Development of disease-resistant marker-free tomato by R/RS site-specific recombination

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1041-1053

  Khan, Raham Sher ^a   Nakamura, Ikuo ^a   Mii, Masahiro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Isopentenyltransferase; Lycopersicon esculentum; Site specific recombination; Wasabi defensin

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; T DNA; T-DNA; TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGENERATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GLUCURONIDASE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGENERATION;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA SOLANI; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; ERYSIPHALES; ERYSIPHE; EUTREMA WASABI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 79955933724     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1011-4     Document Type: Article

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