Virus-induced gene silencing as a tool for functional analyses in the emerging model plant Aquilegia (columbine, Ranunculaceae)

Plant Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Gould, Billie ^a   Kramer, Elena M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AQUILEGIA; AQUILEGIA VULGARIS; ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ORYZA; RANUNCULACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; TOBACCO RATTLE VIRUS;

EID: 34250792785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-3-6     Document Type: Article

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