The Agrobacterium rhizogenes rolB and rolC promoters are expressed in pericycle cells competent to serve as root initials in transgenic hybrid aspen

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 456-462

  Nilsson, Ove ^a   Tuominen, Hannele ^b   Sundberg, Björn ^b   Olsson, Olof ^c  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

glucuronidase; Agrobacterium rhizogenes; Cell specific gene expression; Hairy root; Hybrid aspen; Populus tremula x tremuloides; rolB; rolC

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES;

EID: 0030789382     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.1000306.x     Document Type: Article

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