The seasonal activity and the effect of mechanical bending and wounding on the PtCOMT promoter in Betula pendula Roth

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1205-1214

  Tiimonen, Heidi ^a   Häggman, Hely ^b   Tsai, Chung Jui ^c   Chiang, Vincent ^d   Aronen, Tuija ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Betula pendula; COMT; Expression pattern; GUS; Promoter

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; GENES; TISSUE;

EXPRESSION PATTERN; PHENYLPROPANOID;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BIRCH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PROMOTER REGION; SEASON; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEASONS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

BIOLOGICAL TESTS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TISSUE;

BETULA PENDULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 34547147412     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0331-x     Document Type: Article

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