Promoters of the barley germin-like GER4 gene cluster enable strong transgene expression in response to pathogen attack

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 937-952

  Himmelbach, Axel ^a   Liu, Luo ^a   Zierold, Uwe ^a   Altschmied, Lothar ^a   Maucher, Helmut ^a,d   Beier, Franziska ^a,e   Müller, Doreen ^a   Hensel, Götz ^a   Heise, Andreas ^b   Schützendübel, Andres ^c,f   Kumlehn, Jochen ^a   Schweizera, Patrick ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d BECIT GmbH   (Germany)

^e Saaten Union Resistenzlabor GmbH   (Germany)

^f RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUMERIA GRAMINIS; ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 77953228125     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.067934     Document Type: Article

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