The oil palm metallothionein promoter contains a novel AGTTAGG motif conferring its fruit-specific expression and is inducible by abiotic factors

Planta

Volumn 232, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 925-936

  Omidvar, Vahid ^a   Abdullah, Siti Nor Akmar ^a   Izadfard, Amir ^a   Ho, Chai Ling ^a   Mahmood, Maziah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biolistic transformation; Fruit specific promoter; Gel mobility shift assay; Inducible expression; Oil palm metallothionein; Transient expression assay

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FRUIT; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ABSCISIC ACID; ARECACEAE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; PLANT LEAVES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

ELAEIS;

EID: 77955846281     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1220-z     Document Type: Article

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