Functional analysis of BnMAR element in transgenic tobacco plants

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3285-3291

  Xu, Miao Yun ^a   Zhang, Xi ^a   Zhang, Lan ^a   Luo, Yan Zhong ^a   Fan, Yun Liu ^a   Wan, Lei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Brassica napus.; Scaffold matrix attachment regions; Transformation; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GUS GENE; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGION; NONHUMAN; NOPALINE SYNTHASE GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RAPESEED; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO;

BRASSICA NAPUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; MATRIX ATTACHMENT REGIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REGENERATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

BRASSICA NAPUS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 80052449217     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-010-0433-3     Document Type: Article

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