Efficient auto-excision of a selectable marker gene from transgenic citrus by combining the Cre/loxP system and ipt selection

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1601-1613

  Zou, Xiuping ^a,b   Peng, Aihong ^a,b   Xu, Lanzhen ^a,b   Liu, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Lei, Tiangang ^a,b   Yao, Lixiao ^a,b   He, Yongrui ^a,b   Chen, Shanchun ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center for Citrus Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Citrus; Cre loxP; Genetic transformation; ipt; Marker free

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CRE RECOMBINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; T DNA; T-DNA; TRANSFERASE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; CITRUS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTEGRASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CITRUS;

EID: 84884210167     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-013-1470-x     Document Type: Article

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