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Molecular analysis of the acetolactate synthase gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and development of a genetically engineered gene as a dominant selectable marker for genetic transformation.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jan 2002
Kovar Joy L, Zhang Jun, Funke Roel P, Weeks Donald P
Abstract excerpt
Genomic and cDNA clones of the acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have been isolated from a mutant, c85-20 (Hartnett et al., 1987), that is resistant to high concentrations of sulfometuron methyl (SMM) and related sulfonylurea herbicides. Comparison of the ALS gene sequences from the wild-type and the SMM resistant (SMMr) strains revealed two amino acid differences in the mature enzyme,...
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