Progress of targeted genome modification approaches in higher plants

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1401-1416

  Cardi, Teodoro ^a   Neal Stewart, C ^b  

^a Centro di Ricerca per l'Orticoltura   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Homologous recombination; Nucleases; Oligonucleotide directed mutagenesis; Recombinases; Site specific integration; Targeted mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRENDS;

GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

EID: 84962332101     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-016-1975-1     Document Type: Review

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