Rapid fluorescent reporter quantification by leaf disc analysis and its application in plant-virus studies

Plant Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pasin, Fabio ^a   Kulasekaran, Satish ^a   Natale, Paolo ^a   Simón Mateo, Carmen ^a   García, Juan A ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fluorescence spectroscopy; Fluorescent protein; Microtiter plate; Plant virus; RNA silencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920278948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-10-22     Document Type: Article

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