Diverse spontaneous silencing of a transgene among two Nicotiana species

Planta

Volumn 234, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-707

  Dalakouras, Athanasios ^a,b   Moser, Mirko ^a   Boonrod, Kajohn ^a   Krczal, Gabi ^a   Wassenegger, Michael ^a,b  

^a AlPlanta Institute for Plant Research   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nicotiana benthamiana; Nicotiana tabacum; RNA directed DNA methylation; Small interfering RNA; Spontaneous silencing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; COTYLEDON; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

COTYLEDON; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 80955177533     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1433-9     Document Type: Article

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