The promoter of a gene that is expressed only in pollen interacts with ubiquitous transcription factors

Sexual Plant Reproduction

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 197-202

  Hochstenbach, Ron ^a   De Groot, Peter ^a   Jacobs, John ^a,b   Schrauwen, Jan ^a   Wullems, George ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

GT 1; GT 2; Pollen; Tobacco; Transcriptional control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029779573     PISSN: 09340882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02173098     Document Type: Article

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