Variegation and silencing of the Heat Shock Cognate 80 gene are relieved by a bipartite downstream regulatory element

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 325-339

  Chinn, Anna M ^a   Payne, Shannon R ^a   Comai, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0030111433     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.09030325.x     Document Type: Article

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