Design of chimeric expression elements that confer high-level gene activity in chromoplasts

Plant Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 368-379

  Caroca, Rodrigo ^a   Howell, Katharine A ^a,b   Hasse, Claudia ^a   Ruf, Stephanie ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

chromoplasts; GFP; plastid; plastid transformation; Solanum lycopersicum; transcription; translation

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPLASTS; GFP; PLASTID; PLASTID TRANSFORMATION; SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM;

CHLOROPHYLL; FRUITS; HISTOLOGY; PROTEINS; TISSUE; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

GENES;

HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLASTIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84873051879     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12031     Document Type: Article

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