RNA-Mediated Virus Resistance: Role of Repeated Transgenes and Delineation of Targeted Regions

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2277-2294

  Sijen, Titia ^a,b   Wellink, Joan ^a   Hiriart, Jean Baptiste ^a   Van Kammen, Ab ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COWPEA MOSAIC VIRUS; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; POTATO VIRUS X; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0001292019     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3870468     Document Type: Article

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