Highly efficient, 5′-sequence-specific transgene silencing in a complex polyploid

Tropical Plant Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 88-97

  Birch, Robert G ^a   Bower, Robert S ^a   Elliott, Adrian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Luciferase; Post transcriptional silencing; Saccharum; Sugarcane; Ubiquitin promoter

Indexed keywords

SACCHARUM;

EID: 77952558271     PISSN: 19359756     EISSN: 19359764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12042-010-9047-0     Document Type: Article

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