Efficiency of transcriptional gene silencing of GBSSI in potato depends on the promoter region that is used in an inverted repeat

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 275, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 437-449

  Heilersig, Berlinda H J B ^a,b   Loonen, Annelies E H M ^a   Janssen, Elly M ^a   Wolters, Anne Marie A ^a   Visser, Richard G F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KEYGENE N V   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Granule bound starch synthase; Potato; Promoter inverted repeat; RNA directed DNA methylation; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

GRANULE BOUND STARCH SYNTHASE 1; PLANT DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STARCH SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CULTIVAR; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE SILENCING; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLANT GROWTH; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSGENE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 33646540444     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-006-0101-4     Document Type: Article

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