Stabilities and instabilities in transgene expression

Transgenic Plant Research

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 263-275

  Meyer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosuppression; DNA methylation; Gene silencing; Homology dependent silencing; Transgenic plants; Transinactivation

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