Stochastic and nonstochastic post-transcriptional silencing of chitinase and β-1,3-glucanase genes involves increased RNA turnover-possible role for ribosome-independent RNA degradation

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 471-483

  Holtorf, Hauke ^a,b   Schöb, Hanspeter ^a   Kunz, Christian ^a,c   Waldvogel, Rosa ^a   Meins Jr , Frederick ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d NONE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0033101716     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.3.471     Document Type: Article

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