Tackling Heterogeneity: A Leaf Disc-Based Assay for the High-Throughput Screening of Transient Gene Expression in Tobacco

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Piotrzkowski, Natalia ^a   Schillberg, Stefan ^a   Rasche, Stefan ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LEAF AGE; LEAF DISK ASSAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHIZOBIUM; TOBACCO; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ALLERGENS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STABILITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODIES; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGROBACTERIUM; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84866694000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045803     Document Type: Article

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