Listening to the silent genes: Transgene silencing, gene regulation and pathogen control

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 340-347

  Kooter, Jan M ^a   Matzke, Marjori A ^b   Meyer, Peter ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROSIS; TRANSGENE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; VIROIDS;

EID: 0032815855     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(99)01467-3     Document Type: Review

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