Use of real-time PCR for determining copy number and zygosity in transgenic plants

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 263-271

  Bubner, Ben ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copy number; Real time PCR; Transgenic plants; Zygosity

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DYES; GENES; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS;

OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SOUTHERN ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; ZYGOSITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PLANT DNA;

GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA, PLANT; GENE DOSAGE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELLS; DYES; GENES; NUCLEOTIDES; PLANTS; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS;

EID: 8744317168     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-004-0859-y     Document Type: Review

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