Separation of cis elements responsive to ethylene, fruit development, and ripening in the 5'-flanking region of the ripening-related E8 gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1001-1011

  Deikman, Jill ^a,b   Xu, Ruiling ^a,c   Kneissl, Michelle L ^a   Ciardi, Joseph A ^a,d   Kim, Kyung Nam ^a   Pelah, Dan ^a,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^c Blood Systems Foundation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ethylene; Fruit ripening; Lycopersicon esculentum; Promoter analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBENE; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; ETHYLENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RIPENING;

BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032145552     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006091928367     Document Type: Article

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