Mitotic stability of infection-induced resistance to plum pox potyvirus associated with transgene silencing and DNA methylation

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-111

  Guo, Hui Shan ^a,b   López Moya, Juan José ^a   García, Juan Antonio ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Recovery; RNA mediated resistance; Virus induced gene silencing

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; INFECTIVITY; MUTATION; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLUM POX POTYVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA REPLICATION; TRANSGENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

EID: 0345683494     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.2.103     Document Type: Article

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