Transgenic rice plants that overexpress transcription factors RF2a and RF2b are tolerant to rice tungro virus replication and disease

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 21012-21016

  Dai, Shunhong ^a   Wei, Xiaoping ^a   Alfonso, Antonio A ^b   Pei, Liping ^a   Duque, Ulysses G ^b   Zhang, Zhihong ^a,c   Babb, Gina M ^b   Beachy, Roger N ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b PHILIPPINE RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c Sigma Aldrich Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic leucine zipper; Host factors; Resistance

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RF2A; PROTEIN RF2B; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TUNGROVIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TUNGROVIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AGROBACTERIUM; CICADELLIDAE; RICE TUNGRO BACILLIFORM VIRUS;

EID: 58549102706     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810303105     Document Type: Article

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