Post-transcriptional silencing of pectin methylesterase gene in transgenic tomato fruits results from impaired pre-mRNA processing

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 583-592

  Mishra, Krishna K ^a   Handa, Avtar K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; MESSENGER RNA; PECTINMETHYL ESTERASE GENE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; TOMATO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EID: 0031811502     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00157.x     Document Type: Article

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