Transcriptional activation of retrotransposons alters the expression of adjacent genes in wheat

Nature Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 102-106

  Kashkush, Khalil ^a   Feldman, Moshe ^a   Levy, Avraham A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE; WHEAT;

DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0037226595     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1063     Document Type: Article

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