Systematic silencing of a tobacco nitrate reductase transgene in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 56, Issue 419, 2005, Pages 2379-2388

  Dubois, Vincent ^a,c   Botton, Emmanuel ^a   Meyer, Christian ^b   Rieu, Aline ^a   Bedu, Magali ^b   Maisonneuve, Brigitte ^a   Mazier, Marianne ^a  

^a Researches Center of Avignon   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lettuce; mRNA; Nitrate; Nitrate reductase; PTGS; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

GENES; NITRATES; RNA; TOBACCO;

BLOTS; CHLOROSIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LETTUCE; PLANT LEAF; POTATO; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; LETTUCE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TOBACCO;

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 23944475897     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eri230     Document Type: Article

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