Maize α-tubulin genes are expressed according to specific patterns of cell differentiation

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1069-1078

  Uribe, Xavier ^a,c   Torres, Miguel Angel ^b,c   Capellades, Montserrat ^c   Puigdomènech, Pere ^c   Rigau, Joan ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

In situ hybridization; Maize; Promoter analysis; Tobacco transformation; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAIZE; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; REPORTER GENE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TUBULIN GENE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE DELETION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TUBULIN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031878030     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006067710312     Document Type: Article

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