S Phase-Specific Expression of Plant Histone Genes

Journal of Plant Research

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 247-251

  Meshi, Tetsuo ^b   Taoka, Ken Ichiro ^b   Iwabuchi, Masaki ^a,b  

^a Research Institute for Biological Science OKAYAMA   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cis acting elements; Histone genes; Oct motif; S phase specific expression; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0032093116     PISSN: 09189440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02512178     Document Type: Article

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