Use of Viral Replicons for the Expression of Genes in Plants

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - Part B Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-221

  Porta, Claudine ^b   Lomonossoff, George P ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chimeric particles; Gene transfer; Plant virus; Protein engineering; Vector

Indexed keywords

DNA VIRUSES; RNA VIRUSES;

DNA VIRUS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPLICON; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID;

CAPSID; DNA VIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, PLANT; REPLICON; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0030158570     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02900359     Document Type: Review

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