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Potato virus X induced gene silencing as a novel approach for gene identification and function analysis

ReferenceGAT09114
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Sir David Baulcombe
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution University of East Anglia
DepartmentSainsbury Laboratory
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 170,785
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 04/01/1998
End date 04/06/2001
Duration41 months

Abstract

Transgenic expression of replicating PVX (termed a PVX `amplicon') triggers post- transcriptional gene silencing in an extremely reliable manner. We propose to use a PVX amplicon to target and silence specific genes in order to determine gene function.

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Committee Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative Genome Analysis of Agriculturally Important Traits (GAT) [1997-1998]
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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