High level transgenic expression of soybean (Glycine max) GmERF and Gmubi gene promoters isolated by a novel promoter analysis pipeline

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hernandez Garcia, Carlos M ^a   Bouchard, Robert A ^a   Rushton, Paul J ^b,d   Jones, Michelle L ^a   Chen, Xianfeng ^c,e   Timko, Michael P ^b   Finer, John J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; PHASEOLUS LUNATUS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; SOYBEAN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BEAN; CLASSIFICATION; COTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHASEOLUS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SOYBEAN PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 78049413913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-237     Document Type: Article

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