A distal promoter region of the rice seed storage protein glutelin gene enhanced quantitative gene expression

Plant Science

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-65

  Zheng, Zhenwei ^a   Murai, Norimoto ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucuronidase; Distal promoter region; Gene expression; Glutelin

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GLUTENIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RICE;

EID: 0030880877     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(97)00138-6     Document Type: Article

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