Use of ubiquitin fusions to augment protein expression in transgenic plants

Plant Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 713-723

  Hondred, David ^a,b   Walker, Joseph M ^a   Mathews, Dennis E ^a,c   Vierstra, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPLAST; BIOTECHNOLOGY RESOURCES; CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYBRID PROTEIN; IN VIVO STUDY; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEINASE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UBIQUITIN; VECTOR;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; NICOTIANA TABACURA;

EID: 0033080490     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.119.2.713     Document Type: Article

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