Transgene inactivation: Plants fight back!

Bio/Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 883-888

  Finnegan, Jean ^a   McElroy, David ^b  

^a CSIRO PLANT INDUSTRY   (Australia)

^b PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ALFALFA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RICE; SILENCER GENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 0028107795     PISSN: 0733222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0994-883     Document Type: Article

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