Characterization of a set of novel meiotically-active promoters in Arabidopsis

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Li, Junhua ^a,c   Farmer, Andrew D ^b   Lindquist, Ingrid E ^b   Dukowic Schulze, Stefanie ^a   Mudge, Joann ^b   Li, Tao ^a   Retzel, Ernest F ^b   Chen, Changbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^c HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cis regulatory elements; GFP; Homologous recombination; Meiosis; Plant molecular breeding; Promoter

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLANT DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84863533639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-104     Document Type: Article

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