Novel promoters that induce specific transgene expression during the green to ripening stages of tomato fruit development

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1415-1424

  Hiwasa Tanase, Kyoko ^a   Kuroda, Hirofumi ^b   Hirai, Tadayoshi ^a   Aoki, Koh ^c   Takane, Kenichi ^b   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Inplanta Innovations Inc   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fruit development; Fruit specific promoter; Green stage; Red stage; Tomato

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMATO; TRANSGENE;

FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GLUCURONIDASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENES;

AGROBACTERIUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84864334533     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-012-1257-5     Document Type: Article

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