Leaf senescence is delayed in tobacco plants expressing the maize knotted1 gene under the control of a wound-inducible promoter

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1246-1254

  Luo, Keming ^a   Deng, Wei ^a   Xiao, Yuehua ^a   Zheng, Xuelian ^a   Li, Yi ^b   Pei, Yan ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokinin; kn1; Senescence; Wound inducible promoter

Indexed keywords

GENES; HARVESTING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

KN1; LEAF-DETACHMENT ASSAY; SENESCENCE; WOUND-INDUCIBLE PROMOTER;

TOBACCO;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KN1 PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; TIME; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO; ZEA MAYS;

CORN; CYTOKININS; GENES; HARVESTING; PLANTS; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33750369901     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-006-0178-6     Document Type: Article

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