The influences of two plant nuclear matrix attachment regions (MARS) on gene expression in transgenic plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-123

  Liu, Jian Wei ^a   Tabe, Linda M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomously replicating sequence; Copy number dependence; Genomic position effect; Scaffold attachment region; Tobacco; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031929528     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029282     Document Type: Article

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