Early transcription of agrobacterium T-DNA genes in tobacco and maize

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 873-886

  Narasimhulu, Soma B ^a,b   Deng, Xiao Bing ^a   Sarria, Rodrigo ^a,c   Gelvin, Stanton B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA TABACUM; RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM; VIR; ZEA MAYS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; TOBACCO; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, MESSENGER; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030137402     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.5.873     Document Type: Article

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