Constitutive promoters available for transgene expression instead of CaMV 35S RNA promoter: Arabidopsis promoters of tryptophan synthase protein βsubunit and phytochrome B

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-26

  Shirasawa Seo, Naomi ^a   Mitsuhara, Ichiro ^b,c   Nakamura, Shigeo ^a   Murakami, Taka ^b,c   Iwai, Takayoshi ^b,c   Nishizawa, Yoko ^b   Hibi, Tadaaki ^d   Ohashi, Yuko ^b,c  

^a Miyagi Prefectural Agriculture and Horticulture Research Center   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

35S promoter; Arabidopsis; Constitutive expression; GUS assay; Kanamycin resistance; Phytochrome B; Promoter cassette; Soybean chrolotic mosaic virus; Transgenic tobacco; Tryptophan synthase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010917164     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.19.19     Document Type: Article

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