Organizational complexity of a rice transgene locus susceptible to methylation-based silencing

IUBMB Life

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 459-467

  Kumpatla, Siva P ^a,b   Hall, Timothy C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

35S promoter; Biolistics; Methylation; Rearrangements; Silencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE LOCUS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; RICE; TRANSGENE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0032752347     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713803532     Document Type: Article

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