GBSS T-DNA inserts giving partial complementation of the amylose-free potato mutant can also cause co-suppression of the endogenous GBSS gene in a wild-type background

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 731-739

  Flipse, Elise ^a   Straatman Engelen, Irma ^a   Kuipers, Anja G J ^a   Jacobsen, Evert ^a   Visser, Richard G F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

co suppression; complementation; expression; granule bound starch synthase; Solanum tubersoum L.; transgenic inheritance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SOLANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0030198506     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00019461     Document Type: Article

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