A -308 deletion of the tomato LAP promoters is able to direct flower-specific and MeJA-induced expression in transgenic plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 639-648

  Ruíz Rivero, Omar J ^a   Prat, Salomé ^a  

^a DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flower expression; Jasmonate; Leucine aminopeptidase; Promoter analysis; Wounding

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; DELETION MUTANT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; JASMONIC ACID; METHYL JASMONATE; POTATO; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TOMATO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACETIC ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOPENTANES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0032033079     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005980028203     Document Type: Article

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