A systematic study to determine the extent of gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana and other Solanaceae species when heterologous gene sequences are used for virus-induced gene silencing

New Phytologist

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 782-791

  Senthil Kumar, M ^a,b   Hema, R ^b   Anand, Ajith ^a   Kang, Li ^a   Udayakumar, M ^b   Mysore, Kirankumar S ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Gene silencing; Nicotiana benthamiana; Solanaceae; Virus induced gene silencing

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHYTOENE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMICS; VIRUS;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT VIRUS; TOBACCO;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT VIRUSES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SOLANACEAE; TOBACCO;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANACEAE; TOBACCO RATTLE VIRUS;

EID: 36049020251     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02225.x     Document Type: Article

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