Isolation of two highly active soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) promoters and their characterization using a new automated image collection and analysis system

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1501-1509

  Chiera, Joseph M ^a   Bouchard, Robert A ^a   Dorsey, Summer L ^a,c   Park, Euiho ^a,d   Buenrostro Nava, Marco T ^a,e   Ling, Peter P ^b   Finer, John J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DuPont Agriculture and Nutrition ^*  (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; Heat shock protein; Intron enhancement; Promoter comparison; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INTRON ENHANCEMENT; PROMOTER COMPARISON;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SOYBEAN;

CAULIMOVIRUS; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SOYBEANS; UBIQUITIN;

CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; GLYCINE MAX; PHASEOLUS LUNATUS;

EID: 34548018322     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0359-y     Document Type: Article

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