Transgenic american chestnuts show enhanced blight resistance and transmit the trait to T1 progeny

Plant Science

Volumn 228, Issue , 2014, Pages 88-97

  Newhouse, Andrew E ^a   Polin McGuigan, Linda D ^a   Baier, Kathleen A ^a   Valletta, Kristia E R ^a   Rottmann, William H ^b   Tschaplinski, Timothy J ^c   Maynard, Charles A ^a   Powell, William A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ArborGen LLC   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co transformation; Fungus; Genetic engineering; Heritage tree; Invasive; Restoration

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; FAGACEAE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLOMICS; PLANT DISEASE; POLLINATION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TREE;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; FAGACEAE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; METABOLOMICS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLLINATION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TREES;

EID: 84908206571     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: 18732259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.04.004     Document Type: Article

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