Tobacco transformants expressing antisense sequence of proline dehydrogenase gene possess tolerance to heavy metals

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 825-828

  Kolodyazhnaya, Ya S ^a   Titov, S E ^a   Kochetov, A V ^a   Trifonova, E A ^a   Romanova, A V ^a   Komarova, M L ^a   Koval, V S ^a   Shumny, V K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

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NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34547172632     PISSN: 10227954     EISSN: 16083369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1022795407070162     Document Type: Article

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