Chemical-inducible, ecdysone receptor-based gene expression system for plants

Transgenic Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-109

  Padidam, Malla ^a   Gore, Michael ^a   Lu, D Lily ^a   Smimova, Olga ^a  

^a ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical inducible gene expression; Ecdysone receptor; Gene regulation; Methoxyfenozide; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; ECDYSONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; HYDRAZINES; JUVENILE HORMONES; LEPIDOPTERA; LUCIFERASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, STEROID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PICEA;

EID: 0013057023     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022113817892     Document Type: Article

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