Activity of elements from the tobacco cryptic promoter, tCUP, in conifer tissues

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-202

  Tian, Lining ^a   Wu, Keqiang ^a,c   Levasseur, Caroline ^b   Ouellet, Thérèse ^a   Foster, Elizabeth ^a   Latoszek Green, Marysia ^a   Sibbald, Susan ^a   Miki, Brian ^a   Seguin, Armand ^b   Brown, Daniel C W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conifers; Gene expression; Promoters; Regulatory elements

Indexed keywords

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LARIX; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PINUS TAEDA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 0037903729     PISSN: 10545476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/IVP2002365     Document Type: Article

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