Chalcone synthase cosuppression phenotypes in petunia flowers: Comparison of sense vs. antisense constructs and single-copy vs. complex T-DNA sequences

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 957-973

  Jorgensen, Richard A ^a   Cluster, Paul D ^a,b   English, James ^a,c   Que, Qiudeng ^a   Napoli, Carolyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthocyanin; Gene dosage; Inverted repeats; Paramutation; Pattern elaboration; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PETUNIA;

EID: 0030220502     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00040715     Document Type: Review

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