Flank matrix attachment regions (MARs) from chicken, bean, yeast or tobacco do not prevent homology-dependent trans-silencing in transgenic tobacco plants

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 388-392

  Vaucheret, H ^a   Elmayan, T ^a   Thierry, D ^a   Van Der Geest, A ^b   Hall, T ^b   Conner, A J ^c   Mlynarova, L ^c   Nap, J P ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Homology dependents gene silencing; Matrix attachment regions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAN; CHICKEN; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; HOMOZYGOTE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; YEASTS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; GALLUS GALLUS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0031657154     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050827     Document Type: Article

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