Functional dissection of a bean chalcone synthase gene promoter in transgenic tobacco plants reveals sequence motifs essential for floral expression

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 849-859

  Faktor, Ouriel ^a,c   Kooter, Jan M ^a,d   Dixon, Richard A ^b   Lamb, Chris J ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chalcone synthase; flower development; G box; H box; Phaseolus vulgaris; tobacco; D glucuronidase (GUS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030445695     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00020482     Document Type: Article

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