Evaluation and comparison of the insulation efficiency of three enhancer-blocking insulators in plants

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 405-414

  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

Arabidopsis; Enhancer blocking insulators; Enhancer promoter interaction; Insulation efficiency; Plant transformation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA SEQUENCING ANALYSIS; ENHANCER-BLOCKING INSULATORS; ENHANCER-PROMOTER INTERACTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GLUCURONIDASE; GUS EXPRESSION; PCR AMPLIFICATION; PLANT TRANSFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; TANDEM REPEATS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENICS; VEGETATIVE TISSUE;

GENE ENCODING; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION;

EFFICIENCY;

ARABIDOPSIS; PETUNIA;

EID: 79957458099     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-010-9880-8     Document Type: Article

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