Position-dependent methylation and transcriptional silencing of transgenes in inverted T-DNA repeats: Implications for posttranscriptional silencing of homologous host genes in plants

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6165-6177

  Stam, Maike ^a,b   Viterbo, Ada ^a   Mol, Joseph N M ^a   Kooter, Jan M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE; MESSENGER RNA; PALINDROMIC DNA; PLANT DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENCER GENE; TRANSGENE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PETUNIA;

EID: 0031796374     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.11.6165     Document Type: Article

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