Strategies for antiviral resistance in transgenic plants

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-83

  Prins, Marcel ^a,g   Laimer, Margit ^b   Noris, Emanuela ^c   Schubert, Jörg ^d   Wassenegger, Michael ^e   Tepfer, Mark ^f  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^e AgroScience GmbH   (Germany)

^f INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^g KEYGENE N V   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; PLANT VIRUS MOVEMENT PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT VIRUS; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROID; VIROLOGY;

CAPSID PROTEINS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT VIRAL MOVEMENT PROTEINS; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSGENES; VIROIDS;

VIROIDS;

EID: 37349006551     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2007.00447.x     Document Type: Review

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