The frequency and efficiency of endogene suppression by transitive silencing signals is influenced by the length of sequence homology

Plant Physiology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 788-796

  Bleys, Annick ^a   Vermeersch, Leen ^a   Van Houdt, Helena ^a,b   Depicker, Anna ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b Catholic University College Sint Lieven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

HOMOLOGY; RNA SILENCING; SILENCING SIGNALS;

GENES;

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 33750077574     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.083956     Document Type: Article

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