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2012
S. S. Ahmed, Gong, Z. - H., Ji, J. - J., Yin, Y. - X., Xiao, H. - J., Khan, M. A., Rehman, A., and Ahmad, I., Construction of the intermediate vector pVBG2307 by incorporating vital elements of expression vectors pBI121 and pBI221, vol. 11, pp. 3091-3104, 2012.
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Development of a series of gateway binary vectors possessing a tunicamycin resistance gene as a marker for the transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana. Biosci. Biotechnol. Biochem. 75: 804-807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1271/bbb.110063 PMid:21512216   Wang ZY, MacRae EA, Wright MA, Bolitho KM, et al. (2000). Polygalacturonase gene expression in kiwifruit: relationship to fruit softening and ethylene production. Plant Mol. Biol. 42: 317-328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006309529922 PMid:10794531   Watson AA, Alm RA and Mattick JS (1996). Construction of improved vectors for protein production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Gene 172: 163-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-1119(96)00026-1   Xu G, Sui N, Tang Y, Xie K, et al. (2010). One-step, zero-background ligation-independent cloning intro-containing hairpin RNA constructs for RNAi in plants. New Phytol. 187: 240-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03253.x PMid:20406406   Xu WR, Wang YJ, Wang XP, Hao W, et al. (2005). 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H. - F. Zhao, Huang, W., Ahmed, S. S., Gong, Z. - H., and Zhao, L. - M., The pollen wall and tapetum are altered in the cytoplasmic male sterile line RC7 of Chinese cabbage (Brassica campestris ssp pekinensis), vol. 11, pp. 4145-4156, 2012.
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2011
S. S. Ahmed, Gong, Z. - H., Khan, M. A., Yin, Y. - X., Guo, W. - L., and Imran, J., Activity and expression of polygalacturonase vary at different fruit ripening stages of sweet pepper cultivars, vol. 10, pp. 3275-3290, 2011.
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