Light-induced transcriptional repression of the pea AS1 gene: Identification of cis-elements and transfactors

Plant Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1021-1034

  Ngai, Nora ^a   Tsai, Fong Ying ^b,c   Coruzzi, Gloria ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; AVENA SATIVA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0031279171     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1997.12051021.x     Document Type: Article

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