Development of a transgenic early flowering pear (Pyrus communis L.) genotype by RNAi silencing of PcTFL1-1 and PcTFL1-2

Planta

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1239-1251

  Freiman, Aviad ^a,b   Shlizerman, Lyudmila ^a   Golobovitch, Sara ^a   Yablovitz, Zeev ^a   Korchinsky, Raia ^a   Cohen, Yuval ^a   Samach, Alon ^b   Chevreau, Elisabeth ^c   Le Roux, Pierre Marie ^d   Patocchi, Andrea ^d   Flaishman, Moshe A ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^d AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Genetic transformation; Juvenility; MdTFL1; Plant breeding; Precocious flowering

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INHERITANCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PYRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIOD; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PYRUS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE;

PYRUS; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 84861592215     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1571-0     Document Type: Article

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