Graft transmission of post-transcriptional gene silencing: Target specificity for RNA degradation is transmissible between silenced and non-silenced plants, but not between silenced plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Sonoda, Shoji ^a,b   Nishiguchi, Masamichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GRAFT HYBRIDIZATION; MESSENGER RNA; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; RNA DEGRADATION; SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE SILENCING; HYDROLYSIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0034003214     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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