Engineering viral expression vectors for plants: The 'full virus' and the 'deconstructed virus' strategies

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 182-188

  Gleba, Yuri ^a   Marillonnet, Sylvestre ^a   Klimyuk, Victor ^a  

^a Biozentrum Halle ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

TMV; Tobacco mosaic virus

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT VIRUS; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; VECTORS;

EID: 1542291115     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2004.01.003     Document Type: Review

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