A 13-bp cis-regulatory element in the LTR promoter of the tobacco retrotransposon Tto1 is involved in responsiveness to tissue culture, wounding, methyl jasmonate and fungal elicitors

Plant Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-393

  Takeda, Shin ^a   Sugimoto, Kazuhiko ^a   Otsuki, Hiroshi ^a,b   Hirochika, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Hokuriku Natl Agric Exp Station ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPHOSPHORYLATION; METHYL JASMONATE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETROPOSON; TISSUE CULTURE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPOSON;

ACETIC ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYCLOPENTANES; DNA, PLANT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; TOBACCO;

EID: 0033136093     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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