Investigation of the endosperm-specific sucrose synthase promoter from rice using transient expression of reporter genes in guar seed tissue

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1035-1042

  Rasmussen, Thomas Bruun ^a,b   Donaldson, Iain A ^a,c  

^a DANISCO A S   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dual reporter; Endosperm; Guar; Luciferase; Rsus3 promoter; Transient expression

Indexed keywords

DUAL REPORTERS; GUAR; LUCIFERASE; RSUS3 PROMOTERS; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION;

CROPS; PLANT CELL CULTURE; SEED; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ENZYMES;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GUAR; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYAMOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLUCURONIDASE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEEDS;

CELLS; ENDOSPERM; ENZYMES; RICE; SEEDS; SUCROSE;

CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA; ORYZA SATIVA; RENILLA; RENILLA LUCIFERASE;

EID: 33749069704     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-006-0158-x     Document Type: Article

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