GUS expression in sweet oranges (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) driven by three different phloem-specific promoters

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2005-2013

  Miyata, Luzia Yuriko ^a   Harakava, Ricardo ^b   Stipp, Liliane Cristina Libório ^a   Mendes, Beatriz Madalena Januzzi ^a   Appezzato da Glória, Beatriz ^a   de Assis Alves Mourão Filho, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BIOLÓGICO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Genetic transformation; Histological analysis; Huanglongbing

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; PLANT LECTIN; PP2 A1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PP2-A1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PROMOTER REGION; REGENERATION; RHIZOBIACEAE; SWEET ORANGE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CITRUS SINENSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHLOEM; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGENERATION; RHIZOBIACEAE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84867652603     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-012-1312-2     Document Type: Article

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