Transgenic tobacco plants expressing the Arabidopsis thaliana nitrilase II enzyme

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 683-691

  Schmidt, Ralf C ^a   Müller, Axel ^a   Hain, Rüdiger ^b   Bartling, Dieter ^a   Weiler, Elmar W ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Agrochemicals Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

CARBON; HYDROLASE; INDOLEACETIC ACID; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ISOENZYME; NITRILASE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLASMID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINOHYDROLASES; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TOBACCO;

EID: 0030144476     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.9050683.x     Document Type: Article

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