Studies on the effects of a flanking repetitive sequence on the expression of single-copy transgenes in Nicotiana sylvestris and in N. sylvestris-N. tomentosiformis hybrids

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 203-215

  Kunz, Christian ^a,d   Narangajavana, Jarunya ^a,e   Jakowitsch, Johannes ^a,f   Park, Young Doo ^a,g   Delon, T René ^b   Kovarik, Ales ^c   Koukalová, Blazena ^c   Van Der Winden, Johannes ^a   Moscone, Eduardo ^a,h   Aufsatz, Werner ^a   Metre, M Florian ^a   Matzke, Marjori ^a   Matzke, Antonius J M ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b Seita   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d Mahidol University ^*  (Switzerland)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^h Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal   (Argentina)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Gene silencing; Nicotiana sylvestris; Polyploid; Repetitive sequence; Retroelement remnant

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

TRANSGENE EXPRESSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; KANAMYCIN KINASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS; NICOTIANA TOMENTOSIFORMIS;

EID: 0038041941     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023937006311     Document Type: Article

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