Epigenetic instability and trans-silencing interactions associated with an SPT::Ac T-DNA locus in tobacco

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 457-469

  English, James J ^a,b   Jones, Jonathan D G ^a  

^a SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b DNA Plant Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC STABILITY; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SILENCER GENE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE;

ALLELES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; HOMOZYGOTE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLANTS; PLANTS, TOXIC; TOBACCO;

EID: 0031932462     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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