Homologous Recombination and Gene Silencing in Plants.
[Book]
Paszkowski, J.
Springer Verlag
2013
1. Genetic RNA-RNA recombination in positive-stranded RNA viruses of plants.- 2. Recombination of a plant pararetrovirus: Cauliflower mosaic virus.- 3. Recombination in geminiviruses: Mechanisms for maintaining genome size and generating genomic diversity.- 4. Recombination of plant mitochondrial genomes.- 5. Homologous recombination and integration of foreign DNA in plastids of higher plants.- 6. Intrachromosomal recombination between genomic repeats.- 7. Substrate specificity of plant recombinases determined in extra-chromosomal recombination systems.- 8. Plant genes and proteins involved in homologous recombination.- 9. Homology recognition during T-DNA integration into the plant genome.- 10. Gene replacement in plants.- 11. Use of site-specific recombination systems in plants.- 12. Inactivation of repeated genes - DNA-DNA interaction?.- 13. Post-transcriptional inhibition of gene expression: Sense and anti-sense genes.- 14. Silencing of chitinase expression in transgenic plants: An autoregulatory model.- 15. Inactivation of maize transposable elements.