Transgene silencing by the host genome defense: implications for the evolution of epigenetic control mechanisms in plants and vertebrates
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Plant Molecular Biology
- Vol. 43 (2/3) , 401-415
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006484806925
Abstract
Increasing evidence supports the idea that various transgene silencing phenomena reflect the activity of diverse host defense responses that act ordinarily on natural foreign or parasitic sequences...Keywords
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