VIGS Vectors for Gene Silencing: Many targets, many tools

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2004, Pages 495-519

  Robertson, Dominique ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Geminiviruses; hpRNA; RNAi

Indexed keywords

GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PLANT; REVIEW; VIRUS;

GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOMICS; PLANTS; VIRUSES;

RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 3242685305     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.55.031903.141803     Document Type: Review

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