METHOD OF RETARDING EXPRESSION OF A GEN PRESENT IN A PLANT GENOME, DNA SEQUENCE, PROTEIN ABLE TO CAUSE SUCH RETARDATION, EXPRESSION CASE, BACTERIAL TRANSFORMING VECTOR, BACTERIAL CELLS, TRANSFORMED PLANT CELLS, CULTURE OF MAIZE CELLS OR TISSUE AND TRANSFORMED MAIZE PLANT

摘要

Altered transcriptional activators can bind to genes or other components of the transcriptional machinery of the cell without activating transcription of the genes. Synthetic DNA sequences which code for these modified regulatory compounds can be introduced into plant cells to competitively inhibit expression of one or more target genes.