Isolation of the promoter of a cotton β-galactosidase gene (GhGal1) and its expression in transgenic tobacco plants

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-114

  Wu, Aimin ^a   Liu, Jinyuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

galactosidase; Cotton; Fruit and trichome expression; Promoter activity; Transgenic tobacco

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; COTTON; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; GOSSYPIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 33747343499     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: 18622798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-006-0105-7     Document Type: Article

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