An efficient reverse genetics platform in the model legume Medicago truncatula

New Phytologist

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1065-1076

  Cheng, Xiaofei ^a   Wang, Mingyi ^a   Lee, Hee Kyung ^a   Tadege, Million ^a   Ratet, Pascal ^b   Udvardi, Michael ^a   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^a   Wen, Jiangqi ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Database searching; Flanking sequence tags (FSTs); Floral homeotic genes; Medicago tuncatula; Reverse genetics; Tnt1 mutant population

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DATABASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; LEGUME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; DATABASE SEARCHING; FLANKING SEQUENCE TAGS (FSTS); FLORAL HOMEOTIC GENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; MEDICAGO TUNCATULA; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PLANT GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE GENETICS; STANDARD; TNT1 MUTANT POPULATION;

DATABASE SEARCHING; FLANKING SEQUENCE TAGS (FSTS); FLORAL HOMEOTIC GENES; MEDICAGO TUNCATULA; REVERSE GENETICS; TNT1 MUTANT POPULATION;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC TESTING; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REVERSE GENETICS;

EID: 84891901400     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12575     Document Type: Article

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