Transgenic tobacco plants expressing the bacterial mc gene resist virus infection

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 391-399

  Langenberg, Willem G ^a,b   Zhang, Lingyu ^a,b   Court, Donald L ^c   Giunchedi, Luciano ^d   Mitra, Amitava ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ds RNA binding protein; Plant transformation; RNase III; Virus resistance

Indexed keywords

CROPS; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; TOBACCO; VIRUSES;

DS-RNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEINS; PLANT TRANSFORMATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN; RNASE III; TRANSGENEIC PLANTS; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO PLANTS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; WILD TYPES;

RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0000012234     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009697507261     Document Type: Article

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