Creation of ecdysone receptor chimeras in plants for controlled regulation of gene expression

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 546-552

  Martinez, A ^a   Sparks, C ^a   Drayton, P ^a   Thompson, J ^a   Greenland, A ^a   Jepson, I ^a  

^a JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heliothis EcR GR; Nuclear receptors; Transactivation; VP16; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ECDYSONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; TEBUFENOZIDE;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LEPIDOPTERA; MAIZE; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION;

CHIMERA; DROSOPHILA; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, INSECT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HELIOTHIS; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; LEPIDOPTERA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033005617     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050999     Document Type: Article

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