Identification of a rice Actin2 gene regulatory region for high-level expression of transgenes in monocots

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 227-239

  He, Chengkun ^a   Lin, Zhihong ^a   McElroy, David ^a   Wu, Ray ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Act2 promoter; Engineered OsAct2 promoter; Expression vectors; Intron partial deletion; Oryza sativa; Regulatory elements

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RICE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACTINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

LILIOPSIDA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 62149125448     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2008.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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