Plant retrotransposons: Turned on by stress

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 959-961

  Wessler, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RETROPOSON; REVIEW;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; RETROELEMENTS;

EID: 0030207150     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00638-3     Document Type: Article

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