A seed coat-specific promoter for canola

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1961-1965

  El Mezawy, Aliaa ^a   Wu, Limin ^a   Shah, Saleh ^a  

^a ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canola; Promoter; Reporter gene; Seed coat; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM MEDIATED TRANSFORMATIONS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA NAPUS; CELL LAYERS; COPY NUMBER; DOUBLE HAPLOIDS; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GLUCURONIDASE; GUS ACTIVITY; HISTOCHEMICAL ASSAYS; LACCASE GENE; POLLEN GRAINS; REGULATORY REGIONS; REPORTER GENE; SEED COATS; SOUTHERN BLOT ANALYSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; RHIZOBIUM;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; LACCASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; RAPESEED; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BRASSICA NAPUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONIDASE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LACCASE; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RHIZOBIUM; SEEDS;

EID: 73949144668     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-009-0098-y     Document Type: Article

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