Inducible antisense-mediated post-transcriptional gene silencing in transgenic pine cells using green fluorescent protein as a visual marker

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1255-1263

  Tang, Wei ^a   Kinken, Katherine ^a   Newton, Ronald J ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeric transcription factor; Conditional gene expression; Dexamethasone; Post transcriptional gene silencing; RNA interference; Transgene

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PINE; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CELL LINE; GENE SILENCING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PINUS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

PINUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 24044462948     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci134     Document Type: Article

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