Soybean (lbc3), Parasponia, and Trema hemoglobin gene promoters retain symbiotic and nonsymbiotic specificity in transgenic casuarinaceae: Implications for hemoglobin gene evolution and root nodule symbioses

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 887-894

  Franche, Claudine ^a   Diouf, Diaga ^a   Laplaze, Laurent ^a   Auguy, Florence ^a   Frutz, Thierry ^a   Rio, Maryannick ^a   Duhoux, Emile ^a   Bogusz, Didier ^a  

^a Physiol Cell et Molec des Arbres   (France)

Author keywords

Actinorhiza; Frankia; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; FLUOROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NODULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALLOCASUARINA VERTICILLATA; CASUARINA GLAUCA; CASUARINACEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; FRANKIA; GLYCINE MAX; PARASPONIA; PARASPONIA ANDERSONII; TREMA; TREMA TOMENTOSA; ULMACEAE; VERTICILLATA;

EID: 0031666934     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.9.887     Document Type: Article

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