Maturation-specific translational enhancement mediated by the 5′-UTR of a late pollen transcript

Plant Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 613-623

  Bate, N ^a   Spurr, C ^a   Foster, G D ^a   Twell, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAT52 PROTEIN, LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POLLEN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLLEN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0030268318     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1996.10040613.x     Document Type: Article

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