A chimeric ecdysone receptor facilitates methoxyfenozide-dependent restoration of male fertility in ms45 maize

Transgenic Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 455-465

  Unger, Erica ^a,b   Cigan, A Mark ^a,b   Trimnell, Mary ^a,b   Xu, Rui Ji ^a,b   Kendall, Tim ^a,b   Roth, Brad ^a,b   Albertsen, Marc ^a,b  

^a PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Inducible expression; Maize; Male fertility; Methoxyfenozide; Nuclear receptor

Indexed keywords

CHIMERA; ECDYSONE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; HYDRAZINES; JUVENILE HORMONES; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPORES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN; ZEA MAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036774133     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020350208095     Document Type: Article

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