Quantitative nature of the prolamin-box, ACGT and AACA motifs in a rice glutelin gene promoter: Minimal cis-element requirements for endosperm-specific gene expression

Plant Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 415-421

  Wu, Chuan Yin ^a,c   Washida, Haruhiko ^a,b   Onodera, Yasuyuki ^a   Harada, Kyuya ^b   Takaiwa, Fumio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ceres Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cis element; Gene regulation; Glutelin; Promoter; Rice; Storage protein

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENDOSPERM; GLUTELIN GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGION; RICE; SEED STORAGE PROTEIN GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033866518     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00797.x     Document Type: Article

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