The nectary-specific pattern of expression of the tobacco Nectarin I promoter is regulated by multiple promoter elements

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-457

  Carter, Clay ^a,b   Thornburg, Robert W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense; Germin like protein; Nectar; Nectary; Nicotiana; Ovary; SOD; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; TISSUE;

TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

TOBACCO;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

PLANTS; PROTEINS; TISSUE; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FELIS CATUS; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0037339667     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022370203570     Document Type: Article

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