Production of human growth hormone in transgenic rice seeds: Co-introduction of RNA interference cassette for suppressing the gene expression of endogenous storage proteins

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 539-549

  Shigemitsu, Takanari ^a   Ozaki, Shinji ^a   Saito, Yuhi ^a   Kuroda, Masaharu ^b   Morita, Shigeto ^a,c   Satoh, Shigeru ^a,c   Masumura, Takehiro ^a,c  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Forestry and Fisheries Technology Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human growth hormone; Protein body; Rice; RNA interference; Seed storage protein

Indexed keywords

GLUTEN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLAMIN; SEED STORAGE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RICE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUTENS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROLAMINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEED STORAGE PROTEINS; SEEDS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84856968665     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1191-y     Document Type: Article

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