Posttranscriptional gene silencing in transgenic sugarcane. Dissection of homology-dependent virus resistance in a monocot that has a complex polyploid genome

Plant Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1187-1197

  Ingelbrecht, Ivan L ^a   Irvine, James E ^a   Mirkov, T Erik ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA METHYLATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HYBRID; MESSENGER RNA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORGHUM MOSAIC POTYVIRUS; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

SACCHARUM;

EID: 0032802108     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.119.4.1187     Document Type: Article

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