Altered morphology in transgenic tobacco plants that overproduce cytokinins in specific tissues and organs.

doi:10.1016/0012-1606(92)90123-x

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Altered morphology in transgenic tobacco plants that overproduce cytokinins in specific tissues and organs.

Developmental biology - 1 Oct 1992

Li Y, Hagen G, Guilfoyle T J

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An auxin-inducible bidirectional promoter from the soybean SAUR gene locus was fused to a reporter gene in one direction and a cytokinin biosynthetic gene in the opposite direction and the expression of these fused genes was examined in transgenic tobacco. The Escherichia coli uidA gene, which en...

Topics

Amino Acids
Base Sequence
Cytokinins
Molecular Sequence Data
Phenotype
Plants, Toxic
Sucrose
Nicotiana
Transfection

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