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Example sentences for: scions

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(1998) used scions that transgenically expressed green fluorescent protein grafted onto plants with established silencing of the same transgene.
(1997) found that silenced class II rootstocks were able to silence class I scions.
She has been practicing for this inevitable terrible event lately, scoring Elizabeth Dole as Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , admitting to a fondness for John McCain, and having great fun at the expense of Al Gore and George W. Bush, the two scions likely to fight it out in 2000.
When we started working on the silencing signal ourselves, we repeated some of the above experiments but found somehow lower efficiencies in the initiation of silencing in the scions.
Surprisingly, only top grafting resulted in scions that were systemically silenced by a rootstock signal.