The GCN4 motif in a rice glutelin gene is essential for endosperm-specific gene expression and is activated by opaque-2 in transgenic rice plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 673-683

  Wu, Chuan Yin ^a   Suzuki, Akihiro ^a   Washida, Haruhiko ^a,b   Takaiwa, Fumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSPERM SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTELIN GENE; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER FRAGMENT; PROTOPLAST FUSION; RICE; SEED; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; STORAGE PROTEIN GENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; GLUTEN; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032104487     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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