Bnm1, a Brassica pollen-specific gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 603-611

  Treacy, Brian K ^a   Hattori, Jiro ^b   Prud'homme, Isabelle ^c   Barbour, Eric ^d   Boutilier, Kim ^b   Baszczynski, Chris L ^d   Huang, Bin ^c   Johnson, Douglas A ^a   Miki, Brian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Pioneer Hi Bred Production Ltd   (Canada)

^d PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassica; GUS; Pollen promoter; Tissue culture; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

BNM1 PROTEIN, BRASSICA NAPUS; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSICA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; PLOIDY; POLLEN; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BRASSICA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMIC LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLOIDIES; POLLEN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICACEAE;

EID: 0031194450     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005851801107     Document Type: Article

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