Differential tissue-specific response to sulfate and methionine of a soybean seed storage protein promoter region in Transgenic Arabidopsis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1266-1275

  Ohkama, Naoko ^a   Goto, Derek B ^b   Fujiwara, Toru ^a   Naito, Satoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; GFP reporter gene; Methionine; mto1 1 mutation; Sulfur deficiency; subunit of conglycinin

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0036858689     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcf149     Document Type: Article

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