Hordein promoter methylation and transcriptional activity in wild-type and mutant barley endosperm

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 750-760

  Sørensen, Mikael Blom ^a,b   Müller, Martin ^a,d   Skerritt, John ^c   Simpson, David ^a  

^a CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CpG island; Immunocytochemistry; lys3a; Particle bombardment; Transient expression

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

HORDEIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; HORDEIN PROTEIN, HORDEUM VULGARE; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; HORDEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029937817     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02172987     Document Type: Article

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