Silencing of a β-1,3-glucanase transgene is overcome during seed formation

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-137

  Balandin, Teresa ^a   Castresana, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

1,3 glucanase; developmental regulation; transgene silencing

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCAN 1,3 BETA GLUCOSIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCAN 1,3-BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030945580     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005882106266     Document Type: Article

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