Large-scale phenotyping of transgenic tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum) to identify essential leaf functions

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 246-263

  Lein, Wolfgang ^a   Usadel, Bjoern ^a   Stitt, Mark ^a   Reindl, Andreas ^b   Ehrhardt, Thomas ^b   Sonnewald, Uwe ^c,d   Börnke, Frederik ^c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Essential genes; Expressed sequence tag (EST); Gene silencing; Nicotiana tabacum; Phenotyping

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 40349112970     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2007.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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