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For the temporally and spatially regulated expression of the barnase gene in plant, two kinds of plasmids with cre gene and its directly repeat recognition sitesiox from bacteriophage P1 were constructed and co-transformed into tobacco by agrobacterium mediated procedure. The transgenic plants were conformed by PCR analysis. The blocking fragment between the twolox directly repeat sites was excised by Cre protein in the transgenic plant genome. Cloning and sequencing the DNA fragment from the co-transformed plant DNA showed that the precise DNA excision occurred in transgenic tobacco genome directed by Cre/lox site-specific recombination.
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Li, L., Liu, S., Hu, Y. et al. Co-transformation to tobacco of Cre/lox site-specific recombination system and its precise recombination. Chin.Sci.Bull. 45, 540–543 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02887102
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02887102