Characterization of the putative transposase mRNA of Tag1, which is ubiquitously expressed in Arabidopsis and can be induced by agrobacterium- mediated transformation with dTag1 DNA

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 693-701

  Liu, Dong ^a   Crawford, Nigel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0031800712     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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