IMPa-4, an Arabidopsis importin α isoform, is preferentially involved in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2661-2680

  Bhattacharjee, Saikat ^a,b   Lee, Lan Ying ^a   Oltmanns, Heiko ^a,c   Cao, Hongbin ^a,d   Veena, ^a,e   Cuperus, Joshua ^a,f   Gelvin, Stanton B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Stanford University ^*  (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA TABACUM; RATTUS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 54849442381     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.108.060467     Document Type: Article

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