A tobacco cryptic constitutive promoter, tCUP, revealed by T-DNA tagging

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-55

  Foster, Elizabeth ^a   Hattori, Jiro ^a   Labbé, Hélène ^a   Ouellet, Thérèse ^a   Fobert, Pierre R ^b,c   James, Lisa E ^a   Iyer, V N ^b   Miki, Brian L ^a  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constitutive; Cryptic; Promoter; T DNA tagging; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUSION; GENE TAGGING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; TATA BOX; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM; RNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0033197886     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006229501860     Document Type: Article

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