Ethylene formation and phenotypic analysis of transgenic tobacco plants expressing a bacterial ethylene-forming enzyme

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 327-334

  Araki, Seishi ^a,b   Matsuoka, Masayoshi ^b   Tanaka, Masami ^a   Ogawa, Takahira ^b  

^a Kumamoto Prefectural Agricultural Research Center   (Japan)

^b SOJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 oxoglutarate dependent dioxygenase; Ethylene; Ethylene forming enzyme (EFE); Pseudomonas syringae; Tobacco; Transgenic plant

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CATALYSIS; CHIMERIC GENE; DWARFISM; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE FORMING ENZYME; GENE TRANSFER; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID VECTOR; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. PHASEOLICOLA;

EID: 0034087579     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/41.3.327     Document Type: Article

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