High-level transgene expression in plant cells: Effects of a strong scaffold attachment region from tobacco

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 899-913

  Allen, George C ^a   Hall Jr , Gerald ^b   Michalowski, Susan ^a   Newman, Winnell ^a   Spiker, Steven ^a   Weissinger, Arthur K ^a   Thompson, William F ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mycogen Plant Science Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRIXIS;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; FUNGAL DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOPALINE DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOBACCO; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030138749     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.5.899     Document Type: Article

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