The mechanism of graft transmission of sense and antisense gene silencing in tomato plants

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 28-29, 2006, Pages 6579-6586

  Shaharuddin, Noor A ^a   Han, Yuanhuai ^a   Li, Hongying ^a   Grierson, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisense; Grafting; Post transcriptional gene silencing; siRNA; Threshold

Indexed keywords

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANE 1 CARBOXYLATE OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PLANT GRAFTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; IRON REGULATORY PROTEIN 1; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 34547578529     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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