Transforming petals into sepaloid organs in Arabidopsis and oilseed rape: Implementation of the hairpin RNA-mediated gene silencing technology in an organ-specific manner

Planta

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 379-387

  Byzova, Marina ^a   Verduyn, Christoph ^a   De Brouwer, Dirk ^a   De Block, Marc ^a  

^a Bayer sa nv Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apetalous; Arabidopsis; Brassica; Double sepaloid; MADS box; Petal

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; LIGHT REFLECTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA;

FLOWER PETALS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FLOWER; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; RAPESEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA NAPUS; DNA PRIMERS; FLOWERS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 0742267791     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-003-1117-1     Document Type: Article

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