Isolation of an efficient actin promoter for use in rice transformation

Plant Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 163-171

  McElroy, David ^a   Zhang, Wanggen ^a   Cao, Jun ^a   Wu, Ray ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOPLAST; RICE; SUSPENSION;

ACTINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOPLASTS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SUSPENSIONS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0025376570     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.2.2.163     Document Type: Article

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