Translation Start Sequences Affect the Efficiency of Silencing of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA Oncogenes

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 966-977

  Lee, Hyewon ^a   Humann, Jodi L ^a   Pitrak, Jennifer S ^a   Cuperus, Josh T ^a   Parks, T Dawn ^a   Whistler, Cheryl A ^a   Mok, Machteld C ^a   Ream, L Walt ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; DNA; ENZYMES; GENES; PLANT CELL CULTURE; RNA;

GENE SILENCING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0344152246     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.026534     Document Type: Article

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