Functional characterization of a bidirectional plant promoter from cotton leaf curl Burewala Virus using an Agrobacterium-mediated transient assay

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 223-242

  Ashraf, Muhammad Aleem ^a   Shahid, Ahmad Ali ^a   Rao, Abdul Qayyum ^a   Bajwa, Kamran Shehzad ^a   Husnain, Tayyab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Agro infiltration; Bidirectional promoter; Cis regulatory elements; Cotton leaf curl Burewala virus; Geminivirus

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; BEGOMOVIRUS; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; GOSSYPIUM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84892569385     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6010223     Document Type: Article

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