Newly developed quantitative transactivation system shows difference in activation by Vitis CBF transcription factors on DRE/CRT elements

Plant Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nassuth, Annette ^a   Siddiqua, Mahbuba ^a   Xiao, Huogen ^a   Moody, Michelle A ^a   Carlow, Chevonne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agroinfiltration normalization; CBF; DRE CRT; Transactivation effector and reporter plasmids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908090642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-10-32     Document Type: Article

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