Use of the APETALA1 promoter to assay the in vivo function of chimeric MADS box genes

Sexual Plant Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 14-26

  Krizek, Beth Allyn ^a   Riechmann, José Luis ^b,c   Meyerowitz, Elliot M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Mendel Biotechnology   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Domain swapping; Flower development; Functional specificity; MADS domain

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ASSAY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERIC GENE; DIMERIZATION; KERATIN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032811852     PISSN: 09340882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004970050167     Document Type: Article

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