Ectopic expression of a poplar APETALA3-like gene in tobacco causes early flowering and fast growth

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1239-1247

  An, Xinmin ^a   Ye, Meixia ^a   Wang, Dongmei ^a   Wang, Zeliang ^a   Cao, Guanlin ^a   Zheng, Huiquan ^a,b   Zhang, Zhiyi ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG ACADEMY OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

APETALA3; Early flowering; Fast growth; Populus tomentosa; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APETALA3; CDNA LIBRARIES; DOWN-REGULATION; EARLY-FLOWERING; ECTOPIC EXPRESSIONS; FAST GROWTH; FLORAL BUDS; GENETIC MODIFICATIONS; MADS-BOX GENES; MULTIPLE ALIGNMENT; ORTHOLOGS; P. TOMENTOSA; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; POPULUS TOMENTOSA; REPRODUCTIVE TISSUES; TRANSFORMANTS; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO PLANTS; UNTRANSFORMED CONTROL; UP-REGULATION; WILD-TYPE PLANTS;

AMINO ACIDS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TISSUE; TOBACCO;

GENE EXPRESSION;

APETALA 3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEASON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULUS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEASONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; POPULUS TOMENTOSA;

EID: 79955941682     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-011-0545-4     Document Type: Article

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