Expression of genes in transgenic plants from bicistronic transcriptional units

Plant Science

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-99

  Lough, Tony ^a   Tourneur, Colette ^a   Masson, Jean ^b   Robaglia, Christophe ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Bicistronic Transgenic plants; Coat protein

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PROTOPLAST; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0030734101     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(97)00181-7     Document Type: Article

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