Progress of map-based cloning of the Vf-resistance gene and functional verification: Preliminary results from expression studies in transformed apple

HortScience

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 329-331

  Barbieri, M ^a   Belfanti, E ^a   Tartarini, S ^a   Vinatzer, B A ^a   Sansavini, S ^a   Silfverberg Dilworth, E ^b   Gianfranceschi, L ^b   Hermann, D ^b   Patocchi, A ^b   Gessler, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Genetic transformation; GM apples; Malus xdomestica; Venturia inaequalis; Vf resistance gene cloning

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; VENTURIA INAEQUALIS;

EID: 0038340810     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.38.3.329     Document Type: Review

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