Taproot promoters cause tissue specific gene expression within the storage root of sugar beet

Planta

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 485-495

  Oltmanns, Heiko ^b   Kloos, Dorothee U ^c   Brieß, Waltraud ^a   Pflugmacher, Maike ^a   Stahl, Dietmar J ^a   Hehl, Reinhard ^d  

^a PLANTA Angewandte Pflanzengenetik und Biotechnologie GmbH   (Germany)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Definiens Imaging GmbH   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glucuronidase; Beta; Luciferase; Storage roots; Tissue specificity; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BEET; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETA VULGARIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; HYPOCOTYL; LUCIFERASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TOBACCO;

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33746882800     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0230-3     Document Type: Article

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