Sequences surrounding the transcription initiation site of the Arabidopsis enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase gene control seed expression in transgenic tobacco

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1197-1207

  De Boer, Gert Jan ^a,b   Testerink, Christa ^a   Pielage, Gerlof ^a   Nijkamp, H John J ^a   Stuitje, Antoine R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

5' flanking region; Arabidopsis thaliana; Enoyl ACP reductase; Fatty acid synthesis; GUS; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ENHANCER SEQUENCE; ENOYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN REDUCTASE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; INTRON; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RNA EDITING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENOYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN) REDUCTASE (NADH); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; INTRONS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0033120395     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006129924683     Document Type: Article

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