Transgenic wheat plants expressing an oat arginine decarboxylase cDNA exhibit increases in polyamine content in vegetative tissue and seeds

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-50

  Bassie, Ludovic ^a   Zhu, Changfu ^a   Romagosa, Ignacio ^a   Christou, Paul ^a   Capell, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arginine decarboxylase; Polyamines; Transgene expression; Transgenic wheat; Wheat ADC genes

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CLONING; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINES; SPERMIDINE; TRANSGENE EXPRESSION; TRANSGENIC WHEAT; VEGETATIVE TISSUE; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.); WHEAT ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE GENE; WHEAT PLANTS;

AMINES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 45849127271     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11032-007-9154-2     Document Type: Article

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