Graft-transmitted siRNA signal from the root induces visual manifestation of endogenous post-transcriptional gene silencing in the scion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kasai, Atsushi ^a   Bai, Songling ^a   Li, Tianzhong ^b   Harada, Takeo ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; GLUTAMATE 1 SEMIALDEHYDE 2,1 AMINOMUTASE; GLUTAMATE-1-SEMIALDEHYDE 2,1-AMINOMUTASE; MUTASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; GLUTAMATE 1 SEMIALDEHYDE AMINOTRANSFERASE GENE; LEAF VEIN; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GRAFTING; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; RHIZOME; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BREEDING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

BREEDING; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOBACCO;

EID: 79951789606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016895     Document Type: Article

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