Recombination with host transgenes and effects on virus evolution: An overview and opinion

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-92

  Rubio, Teresa ^a   Borja, Marise ^a   Scholthof, Herman B ^b   Jackson, Andrew O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MUTANT; TRANSGENE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS EVOLUTION;

EID: 0033053850     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.2.87     Document Type: Review

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