A three-dimensional RNA motif in Potato spindle tuber viroid mediates trafficking from palisade mesophyll to spongy mesophyll in Nicotiana benthamiana

Plant Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 258-272

  Takeda, Ryuta ^a   Petrov, Anton I ^b   Leontis, Neocles B ^b   Ding, Biao ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER VIROID;

EID: 79952310078     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.081414     Document Type: Article

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