Virus resistance in transgenic watermelon plants containing a WMV-2 coat protein gene

Acta Genetica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-75

  Wang, Hui Zhong ^a,b   Zhao, Pei Jie ^c   Xu, Ji Chen ^d   Zhao, Huai ^c   Zhang, Hong Sheng ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Coat protein gene; Resistance to virus; Transgenic watermelon plants; WMV 2

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEGREGATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; WATERMELON; WMV 2 COAT PROTEIN GENE;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAPSID PROTEINS; CITRULLUS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOSAIC VIRUSES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TIME FACTORS;

CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; WATERMELON MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 0037280817     PISSN: 03794172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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