Leaf senescence is delayed in tobacco plants expressing the maize homeobox gene knotted1 under the control of a senescence-activated promoter

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1073-1080

  Ori, Naomi ^a   Juarez, Michelle T ^a   Jackson, David ^b   Yamaguchi, Judy ^a,c   Banowetz, Gary M ^d   Hake, Sarah ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033150048     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.6.1073     Document Type: Article

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