Gene silencing in Arabidopsis spreads from the root to the shoot, through a gating barrier, by template-dependent, nonvascular, cell-to-cell movement

Plant Physiology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 984-1000

  Liang, Dacheng ^a   White, Rosemary G ^a   Waterhouse, Peter M ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84863695715     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.197129     Document Type: Article

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