Construction of Flower-specific Chimeric Promoters and Analysis of Their Activities in Transgenic Torenia

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 234-245

  Du, Lingjuan ^a,b   Lou, Qian ^a,b   Zhang, Xiongfei ^a,b,c   Jiao, Shuzhen ^a,b   Liu, Yali ^a,b   Wang, Yuejin ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

35S enhancer; Chimeric promoter; Flower specific promoter; OCS enhancer; Torenia fournieri; Transcriptional enhancer

Indexed keywords

LILIUM; PETUNIA; TORENIA; TORENIA FOURNIERI;

EID: 84892483336     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-013-0646-4     Document Type: Article

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