Comparing constitutive promoters using CAT activity in transgenic tobacco plants

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 117-122

  Kang, Tae Jin ^a   Kwon, Tae Ho ^a   Kim, Tae Geum ^a   Loc, Nguyen Hoang ^b   Yang, Moon Sik ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b HUE UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Actin; CaMV35s; Chloramphenicol Acetyl Transferase (CAT); Transgenic Tobacco; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; POLYUBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM; RICE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

AGROBACTERIUM; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; LILIOPSIDA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TOBACCO;

EID: 3042782051     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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