Ac/Ds-transposon activation tagging in poplar: A powerful tool for gene discovery

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fladung, Matthias ^a   Polak, Olaf ^a  

^a Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Mutant; Populus; Transgenic aspen; Transposition; Tree genomics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPEN; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPOSON; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT GENOME; PLASMID; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; POPULUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84856559961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-61     Document Type: Article

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