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Silencing of a plant gene by transcriptional interference.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jun 2009
Hedtke Boris, Grimm Bernhard
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Integration of foreign DNA into eukaryotic genomes results frequently in a total or partial loss of gene function, caused by the interruption of indispensable structures of the gene itself. Using T-DNA insertions in Arabidopsis we screened for mutants with deregulated chlorophyll precursor accumulation in etiolated seedlings. A mutant designated rfd1 (red fluorescent in darkness) with increased...
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