Mobility of transgenic nucleic acids and proteins within grafted rootstocks for agricultural improvement

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Haroldsen, Victor M ^a   Szczerba, Mark W ^a   Aktas, Hakan ^a,b   Lopez Baltazar, Javier ^a,c   Odias, Mar Joseph ^a   Chi Ham, Cecilia L ^a   Labavitch, John M ^a   Bennett, Alan B ^a   Powell, Ann L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Instituto Tecnologico de Oaxaca   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Genetically engineered; mRNA; Protein; Rootstock; Scion; siRNA; Transgrafting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871721053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00039     Document Type: Review

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