Interaction of cis-acting elements in the expression of a gene encoding cytosolic glutamine synthetase in pine seedlings

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 537-545

  Gómez Maldonado, Josefa ^a   Ávila, Concepción ^a   Barnestein, Pilar ^a   Crespillo, Remedios ^a   Cánovas, Francisco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

GENE REGULATION; PUTATIVE REGULATORY ELEMENTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOLOGICAL TESTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; PLANTS; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 4344626104     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2004.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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