Activation of the maize anthocyanin gene a2 is mediated by an element conserved in many anthocyanin promoters

Plant Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 437-445

  Lesnick, Marc Louis ^a,b   Chandler, Vicki Lynn ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTHOCYANINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032091079     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.2.437     Document Type: Article

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