Site-specific gene integration in rice genome mediated by the flp-frt recombination system

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 713-721

  Nandy, Soumen ^a   Srivastava, Vibha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cre lox; DNA recombination; FLP FRT; Gene targeting; Rice transformation; Site specific gene integration

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; FUNGAL DNA; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; RICE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; YEAST;

BIOLISTICS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; YEASTS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 79959947082     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2010.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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