Analysis of a LEA gene promoter via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the desiccation tolerant plant Lindernia brevidens

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1681-1688

  Smith Espinoza, Claudia ^a   Bartels, Dorothea ^a   Phillips, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dehydration inducible promoter; Desiccation tolerance; Resurrection plant; Stable Agrobacterium mediated transformation

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION INDUCIBLE PROMOTER; DESICCATION TOLERANCE; RESURRECTION PLANT;

BACTERIA; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENES;

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN, PLANT; PLANT DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRATEROSTIGMA; CYTOLOGY; DESICCATION; GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT SEED; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CRATEROSTIGMA; DESICCATION; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM; SEEDS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CRATEROSTIGMA; CRATEROSTIGMA PLANTAGINEUM; LINDERNIA BREVIDENS; RHIZOBIUM; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA;

EID: 34548036032     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0370-3     Document Type: Article

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