The CArG boxes in the promoter of the Arabidopsis floral organ identity gene APETALA3 mediate diverse regulatory effects

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1647-1657

  Tilly, Joline J ^a   Allen, David W ^a   Jack, Thomas ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

APETALA3; Arabidopsis; CArG box; Flower development

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT SHOOTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031803868     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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