Identification and Characterisation of Cotton Boll Wall-Specific Gene Promoters for Future Transgenic Cotton Varieties

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 174-184

  Lightfoot, Damien J ^a   Orford, Sharon J ^a   Timmis, Jeremy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boll wall; Chalcone synthase; Cotton; Gossypium hirsutum; Proline rich protein; Promoter

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84872203981     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-012-0484-9     Document Type: Article

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