Overexpression of rice phytochrome A in tobacco seedlings modifies responsiveness but not competence to phytochrome

Planta

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-56

  Emmler, Karlheinz ^a   Kretsch, Thomas ^a   Schäfer, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chs1 (promoter); GUS expression; Lhcb1 (promoter); Nicotiana; PhyA overexpression; Structure function relation

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0343971411     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00196880     Document Type: Article

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