In trangenic rice, α- and β-tubulin regulatory sequences control GUS amount and distribution through intron mediated enhancement and intron dependent spatial expression

Transgenic Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-162

  Gianì, Silvia ^a   Altana, Andrea ^a   Campanoni, Prisca ^b   Morello, Laura ^a   Breviario, Diego ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b Philip Morris Products SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

IME; Introns; Promoter; Rice; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RICE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TUBULIN;

EID: 62149131853     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-008-9202-7     Document Type: Article

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