Development of a promoter-luciferase-based high-throughput system to monitor jasmonate-mediated defense gene expression

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 515-520

  Kusama, Masahiro ^a   Urata, Nobuaki ^a   Ogura, Rieko ^a   Ogata, Shin Ichi ^a   Hiratsuka, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Firefly luciferase; High throughput screening; Jasmonic acid; PDF1.2; Plant activator; VSP1

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874163042     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.12.0924b     Document Type: Note

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