Inverted repeat PCR for the rapid assembly of constructs to induce RNA interference

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1872-1878

  Pawloski, Lucia Cardenas ^a,b   Deal, Roger B ^a   McKinney, Elizabeth C ^a   Burgos Rivera, Brunilís ^a   Meagher, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Post transcriptional gene silencing; RNAi; Stem loop RNA; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE SILENCING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI;

EID: 28544439549     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci191     Document Type: Article

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