Isolation and Characterization of cDNA Clones with Enhanced Expression in Tobacco Plants Expressing the Rice Homeobox Gene, OSH1

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 638-642

  Tamaoki, Masanori ^a   Yamamoto, Naoki ^b   Matsuoka, Makoto ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA subtraction; Nicotiana tabacum; Rice homeobox gene; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OSH1 PROTEIN, ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; RICE; TOBACCO; UPREGULATION;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0031133601     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029215     Document Type: Article

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