Empowering plant evo-devo: Virus induced gene silencing validates new and emerging model systems

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 711-718

  Di Stilio, Verónica S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC model; Evo devo; Gene function; Model systems; VIGS

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CROP; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT GENETICS; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; TRANSGENICS; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT VIRUSES; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 80051669024     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100040     Document Type: Article

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