Petunia AGAMOUS Enhancer-Derived Chimeric Promoters Specify a Carpel-, Stamen-, and Petal-Specific Expression Pattern Sufficient for Engineering Male and Female Sterility in Tobacco

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 162-170

  Yang, Yazhou ^a,b   Singer, Stacy D ^b,c   Liu, Zongrang ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b APPALACHIAN FRUIT RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

AGAMOUS pMADS3; Enhancer; Gene containment; Petunia; Sterility; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PETUNIA; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 79251643430     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-010-0215-z     Document Type: Article

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