The maize regulatory gene B-Peru contains a DNA rearrangement that specifies tissue-specific expression through both positive and negative promoter elements

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1125-1138

  Selinger, David A ^a   Lisch, Damon ^a   Chandler, Vicki L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOGENES; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031800925     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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