Successive silencing of tandem reporter genes in potato (Solanum tuberosum) over 5 years of vegetative propagation

Annals of Botany

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 565-572

  Nocarova, Eva ^a   Opatrny, Zdenek ^a   Fischer, Lukas ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

(P)TGS; 5 Azacytidine; de novo regeneration; DNA methylation; green fluorescent protein (GFP); kanamycin resistance test; reactivation; Solanum tuberosum; transgene silencing

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN KINASE;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METHYLATION; POTATO; TRANSFORMATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POTATO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; KANAMYCIN KINASE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSGENES;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 77957577216     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq153     Document Type: Article

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