Advancing crop transformation in the era of genome editing

Plant Cell

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1510-1520

  Altpeter, Fredy ^a   Springer, Nathan M ^b   Bartley, Laura E ^c   Blechl, Ann E ^d   Brutnell, Thomas P ^e   Citovsky, Vitaly ^f   Conrad, Liza J ^g   Gelvin, Stanton B ^h   Jackson, David P ⁱ   Kausch, Albert P ^j   Lemaux, Peggy G ^k   Medford, June I ^l   Orozco Cárdenas, Martha L ^m   Tricoli, David M ⁿ   Van Eck, Joyce ^o   Voytas, Daniel F ^p   Walbot, Virginia ^q   Wang, Kan ^r   Zhang, Zhanyuan J ^s   Neal Stewart, C ^t  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^h PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^q STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CROP; GENE EDITING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT GENOME;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EDITING; GENOME, PLANT; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84982949939     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00196     Document Type: Article

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