Silencing of transgenes introduced into leaves by agroinfiltration: A simple, rapid method for investigating sequence requirements for gene silencing

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 581-585

  Schob H ^a   Kunz, C ^a,b   Meins Jr , F ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Chitinase; Gene silencing; Nicotiana sylvestris; Ti plasmid

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE;

ARTICLE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE REPRESSION; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SILENCER GENE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENE;

CHITINASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONIDASE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030729369     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050604     Document Type: Article

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