Morphological changes and hypomethylation of DNA in transgenic tobacco expressing antisense RNA of the S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 981-986

  Tanaka, Hideo ^a   Masuta, Chikara ^a   Uehara, Kyoko ^a   Kataoka, Jiro ^a   Koiwai, Akira ^a   Noma, Masana ^a  

^a JAPAN TOBACCO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokinin; DNA methylation; Morphogenesis; S adenosyl L homocysteine hydrolase; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HYDROLASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PLANT; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYDROLASES; HYDROLYSIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO;

EID: 0031460413     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005896711321     Document Type: Article

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