Functional integration of multiple genes into the genome of the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 547-555

  Lin, Xinping ^a,b   Wang, Yanan ^a,b   Zhang, Sufang ^a   Zhu, Zhiwei ^a,b   Zhou, Yongjin J ^a   Yang, Fan ^c   Sun, Wenyi ^a   Wang, Xueying ^a,b   Zhao, Zongbao K ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c DALIAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transformation; Antibiotic resistance; Gene integration; Rhodosporidium toruloides

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; DNA FRAGMENT; HYGROMYCIN; NOURSEOTHRICIN;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM MEDIATED TRANSFORMATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES; WALKING; WESTERN BLOTTING; BASIDIOMYCETES; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AGROBACTERIUM; RHODOSPORIDIUM TORULOIDES;

AGROBACTERIUM; BASIDIOMYCOTA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84902082540     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1567-1364.12140     Document Type: Article

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