Progressive 35S promoter methylation increases rapidly during vegetative development in transgenic Nicotiana attenuata plants

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Weinhold, Arne ^a   Kallenbach, Mario ^a   Baldwin, Ian Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOBELIA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA RUSTICA;

BACTERIAL DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84880012669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-99     Document Type: Article

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