Resistance to Wheat streak mosaic virus generated by expression of an artificial polycistronic microRNA in wheat

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-163

  Fahim, Muhammad ^a,b,c   Millar, Anthony A ^b   Wood, Craig C ^a   Larkin, Philip J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HAZARA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Artificial microRNA; Multiplex amiRNA; Potyviridae; Transgenic resistance; Triticum aestivum; Tritimovirus; Wheat streak mosaic virus

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POTYVIRUS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIROLOGY; WHEAT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICRORNAS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POTYVIRIDAE; TRITICUM;

POTYVIRIDAE; POTYVIRUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITIMOVIRUS; WHEAT STREAK MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84855257296     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00647.x     Document Type: Article

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