What can we learn from tobacco and other solanaceae about horizontal DNA transfer?

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1231-1242

  Talianova, Martina ^a   Janousek, Bohuslav ^a  

^a Department of Plant Developmental Genetics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Grafting; Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmodesmata; Reticulate evolution; Solanaceae; Tobacco; Viruses

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLOROPLAST DNA; FUNGAL DNA; PLANT DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE TRANSFER; GRAFTING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRUS;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT VIRUS; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SOLANACEAE; TOBACCO; VIROLOGY;

AGROBACTERIUM; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, PLANT; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT VIRUSES; SOLANACEAE; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM; SOLANACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84857719512     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000370     Document Type: Review

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