Improved method for constructing plant amiRNA vectors with blue-white screening and MAGIC

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1683-1688

  Yan, Hong ^a   Zhong, Xing ^a   Jiang, Sijing ^a   Zhai, Chao ^a   Ma, Lixin ^a  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

amiRNA vectors; Blue white screening; lacO reconstruction; MAGIC

Indexed keywords

AMIRNA VECTORS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BLUE-WHITE SCREENING; CLONING STRATEGY; EXPRESSION CASSETTE; EXPRESSION VECTORS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC RESEARCH; IMPROVED METHODS; LACO RECONSTRUCTION; MAGIC; MICRORNAS; TARGET GENES;

CLONING; DNA; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

VECTORS;

MICRORNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU;

EID: 79960156079     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-011-0607-7     Document Type: Article

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