Directly Transforming PCR-Amplified DNA Fragments into Plant Cells Is a Versatile System That Facilitates the Transient Expression Assay

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lu, Yuming ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Wu, Yuxuan ^a   Wang, Yanping ^a   He, Yuqing ^a   Wu, Yan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABI1 PROTEIN; ABSCISIC ACID; CALCIUM PROTEIN KINASE; CPK4 PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN KINASE; PYR1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ABF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABA SIGNALING PATHWAY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESOPHYLL; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTOPLAST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION;

CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANT CELLS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTOPLASTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84874496982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057171     Document Type: Article

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