Designer promoter: An artwork of cis engineering

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 527-536

  Mehrotra, Rajesh ^a   Gupta, Gauri ^a   Sethi, Riccha ^a   Bhalothia, Purva ^a   Kumar, Narayan ^a   Mehrotra, Sandhya ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Bidirectional promoters; Chemical and light switches; cis elements; cis engineering; Designer promoter; Gene silencing; Inducible promoters; Pathogen inducible promoters

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952697620     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-011-9755-3     Document Type: Review

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