Induced Expression of AtLEC1 and AtLEC2 Differentially Promotes Somatic Embryogenesis in Transgenic Tobacco Plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Guo, Fengdan ^a,c   Liu, Chuanliang ^b   Xia, Han ^a   Bi, Yuping ^a,c   Zhao, Chuanzhi ^a   Zhao, Shuzhen ^a   Hou, Lei ^a   Li, Fuguang ^b   Wang, Xingjun ^a,c  

^a SHANDONG PEANUT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology   (China)

^c SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; SALICYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APICAL MERISTEM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ATLEC1 GENE; ATLEC2 GENE; CALLUS (PLANT); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; SEEDLING; SHOOT; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; DEXAMETHASONE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REGENERATION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84881484894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071714     Document Type: Article

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