Neither inverted repeat T-DNA configurations nor arrangements of tandemly repeated transgenes are sufficient to trigger transgene silencing

Plant Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 507-517

  Lechtenberg, Berthold ^a   Schubert, Daniel ^a,b   Forsbach, Alexandra ^a,c   Gils, Mario ^a,d   Schmidt, Renate ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d Icon Genetics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Inverted repeat; Post transcriptional gene silencing; T DNA; Tandem repeat; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; PROTEINS;

TRANSGENE EXPRESSION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; HOMOZYGOTE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0037517053     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01746.x     Document Type: Article

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