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Insertional mutagenesis in yeasts using T-DNA from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Paul Bundock1, Haico van Attikum, Amke den Dulk-Ras

  • 1Institute for Molecular Plant Sciences, Wassenaarseweg 64, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands. bundock@rulbim.leidenuniv.nl

Summary

Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA can be used for insertional mutagenesis in yeast. This method shows no bias for specific integration sites, enabling the isolation of novel mutations for yeast gene discovery.

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