A strong constitutive positive element is essential for the ammonium-regulated expression of a soybean gene encoding cytosolic glutamine synthetase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 551-564

  Tercé Laforgue, Thérèse ^a,b   Carrayol, Elisa ^a,b   Cren, Michèle ^a,b   Desbrosses, Guilhem ^a,b   Hecht, Valérie ^a,b   Hirel, Bertrand ^a,b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Gene expression; Glutamine synthetase; Nodules; Positive element; Promoter

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC REGULATION; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; PHOTOMETRY; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; SOYBEAN; SPECTROMETRY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; DNA, PLANT; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SOYBEANS;

EID: 0343814659     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006169018296     Document Type: Article

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