T-DNA tagging of nodulation- and root-related genes in Lotus japonicus: Expression patterns and potential for promoter trapping and insertional mutagenesis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 275-284

  Martirani, Luca ^a,c   Stiller, Jiri ^b   Mirabella, Rossana ^a   Alfano, Flora ^a   Lamberti, Alessandro ^a   Radutoiu, Simona E ^b   Iaccarino, Maurizio ^a,d   Gresshoff, Peter M ^b   Chiurazzi, Maurizio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNESCO   (France)

Author keywords

Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE TAGGING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION;

AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES; LOTUS JAPONICUS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI;

EID: 0032921375     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.4.275     Document Type: Article

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