Visualisation of plastids in endosperm, pollen and roots of transgenic wheat expressing modified GFP fused to transit peptides from wheat SSU RubisCO, rice FtsZ and maize ferredoxin III proteins

Transgenic Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 529-543

  Primavesi, Lucia F ^a   Wu, Huixia ^a,b   Mudd, Elisabeth A ^c   Day, Anil ^c   Jones, Huw D ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; GFP; Non green plastids; Protein targeting; Stromule; Wheat

Indexed keywords

FERREDOXIN; FTSZ PROTEIN, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; PLASTID; POLLEN; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FERREDOXINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANELLES; ORYZA SATIVA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; POLLEN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM; ZEA MAYS;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 46649088358     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-007-9126-7     Document Type: Article

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