The frequency and degree of cosuppression by sense chalcone synthase transgenes are dependent on transgene promoter strength and are reduced by premature nonsense codons in the transgene coding sequence

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1357-1368

  Que, Qiudeng ^a,b   Wang, Huai Yu ^a   English, James J ^a,c   Jorgensen, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c DNA Plant Technology Corporation   (United States)

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EID: 0031421379     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.8.1357     Document Type: Article

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