A conserved upstream open reading frame mediates sucrose-induced repression of translation

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1717-1729

  Wiese, Anika ^a   Elzinga, Nico ^a   Wobbes, Barry ^a,b   Srneekens, Sjef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Yacht Technology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TISSUE;

UNTRANSLATED REGION (UTR); VASCULAR TISSUES;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 3142740256     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.019349     Document Type: Article

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