The new RENT family of repetitive elements in Nicotiana species harbors gene regulatory elements related to the tCUP cryptic promoter

Genome

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 146-155

  Foster, E ^a   Hattori, J ^a   Zhang, P ^a   Labbe H ^a   Martin Heller, T ^a   Li Pook Than, J ^a   Ouellet, T ^a   Malik, K ^a   Miki, B ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryptic promoter; Nicotiana; Repetitive element; T DNA; Translational enhancer

Indexed keywords

BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037308917     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g02-102     Document Type: Article

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