The Populus PTD promoter imparts floral-predominant expression and enables high levels of floral-organ ablation in Populus, Nicotiana and Arabidopsis

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-132

  Skinner, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Meilan, Richard ^a   Ma, Caiping ^a   Strauss, Steven H ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Expression; Floral specific; Poplar; Promoter; Sterility; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOTOXINS; EXPRESSION; FLORAL ORGANS; FLORAL-SPECIFIC; MADS-BOX GENES; POPLAR; POPULUS; PROMOTER; STERILITY;

TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; POPULUS; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS;

EID: 0142214757     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026044927910     Document Type: Article

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