Putative storage root specific promoters from cassava and yam: Cloning and evaluation in transgenic carrots as a model system

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 651-659

  Arango, Jacobo ^a   Salazar, Bertha ^a   Welsch, Ralf ^a   Sarmiento, Felipe ^a,b   Beyer, Peter ^a   Al Babili, Salim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Carrot; Cassava; Dioscorin; Promoters; Storage roots; Yam

Indexed keywords

DIOSCORIN PROTEIN, DIOSCOREA CAYENENSIS; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARROT; CASSAVA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; XYLEM; YAM;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DAUCUS CAROTA; DIOSCOREA; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MANIHOT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XYLEM;

DAUCUS CAROTA; DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA JAPONICA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 77952419767     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-010-0851-7     Document Type: Article

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