Assessment of common regulatory regions required for the endosperm-specific expression of rice storage protein glutelin genes by hybrid promoters

Plant Science

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-73

  Yoshihara, Toshihiro ^a,b   Washida, Haruhiko ^a,c   Takaiwa, Fumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endosperm specific expression; Hybrid promoter analysis; Rice glutelin gene; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013453717     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(96)04511-6     Document Type: Article

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