Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation: the Biology behind the “Gene-Jockeying” Tool

SB Gelvin - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Agrobacterium tumefaciens and related Agrobacterium species have been known as plant
pathogens since the beginning of the 20th century. However, only in the past two decades …

Regulation of abscisic acid-induced transcription

PK Busk, M Pagès - Plant molecular biology, 1998 - Springer
The phytohormone abscisic acid is probably present in all higher plants. This hormone is
necessary for regulation of several events during seed development and for the response to …

GW5 acts in the brassinosteroid signalling pathway to regulate grain width and weight in rice

J Liu, J Chen, X Zheng, F Wu, Q Lin, Y Heng, P Tian… - Nature plants, 2017 - nature.com
Grain size is a major determinant of grain yield in cereal crops. qSW5/GW5, which exerts the
greatest effect on rice grain width and weight, was fine-mapped to a 2,263-bp/21-kb …

A novel cis-acting element in an Arabidopsis gene is involved in responsiveness to drought, low-temperature, or high-salt stress.

K Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K Shinozaki - The Plant Cell, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Two genes, rd29A and rd29B, which are closely located on the Arabidopsis genome, are
differentially induced under conditions of dehydration, low temperature, high salt, or …

Promoter (FLt) for the full-length transcript of peanut chlorotic streak caulimovirus (PCLSV) and expression of chimeric genes in plants

IB Maiti, RJ Shepperd - US Patent 5,850,019, 1998 - Google Patents
US5850019A - Promoter (FLt) for the full-length transcript of peanut chlorotic streak
caulimovirus (PCLSV) and expression of chimeric genes in plants - Google Patents …

Overexpression of a plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter gene improves salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

H Shi, B Lee, SJ Wu, JK Zhu - Nature biotechnology, 2003 - nature.com
High concentrations of Na+ in saline soils inhibit plant growth and reduce agricultural
productivity. We report here that CaMV 35S promoter driven overexpression of the …

The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus 35S Promoter: Combinatorial Regulation of Transcription in Plants

PN Benfey, NH Chua - Science, 1990 - science.org
Appropriate regulation of transcription in higher plants requires specific cis elements in the
regulatory regions of genes and their corresponding trans-acting proteins. Analysis of the …

Activation tagging in Arabidopsis

D Weigel, JH Ahn, MA Blázquez, JO Borevitz… - Plant …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Activation tagging using T-DNA vectors that contain multimerized transcriptional enhancers
from the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S gene has been applied to Arabidopsis plants …

Characterization of the expression of a desiccation-responsive rd29 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana and analysis of its promoter in transgenic plants

K Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, K Shinozaki - Molecular and General Genetics …, 1993 - Springer
We characterized the expression of genes that correspond to a cDNA clone, RD29, which is
induced by desiccation, cold and high-salt conditions in Arabidopsis thaliana. Northern …

Root development in Arabidopsis: four mutants with dramatically altered root morphogenesis

PN Benfey, PJ Linstead, K Roberts… - …, 1993 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT A genetic analysis of root development in Arabidopsis thaliana has identified
mutants that have abnormal morphogenesis. Four of these root morphogenesis mutants …