Post-transcriptional gene silencing in cultured rice cells

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 321-326

  Kanno, Tatsuo ^a   Naito, Satoshi ^a   Shimamoto, Ko ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cereals; Gene silencing; Plants; Post transcriptional gene regulation; Rice; Transgene

Indexed keywords

CELL LINE; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; GLUCURONIDASE GENE; MONOCOT PLANT; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PLANT GENETICS; PLASMID; PLASMID DNA; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROTOPLAST; RICE; STABLE TRANSFECTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 0034005630     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/41.3.321     Document Type: Article

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