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5′-Regulatory region of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA gene 6b directs organ-specific, wound-inducible and auxin-inducible expression in transgenic tobacco

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The regulatory activity of a 826 bp DNA fragment located upstream of the pTiBo542 TL-DNA gene 6b coding region was analysed in transgenic tobacco, using β-glucuronidase (gus) as a reporter gene. The region was shown to drive organ-specific, wound- and auxin-inducible expression of the reporter, the effect being dependent on the type and concentration of auxin.

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  1. Irina L. Bagyan

    Present address: Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Johnson Pavilion, 19104-6076, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  2. Ekaterina V. Revenkova

    Present address: Friedrich Miescher Institut, Postfach 2543, CH-4002, Basel, Switzerland

  3. Alexander S. Kraev

    Present address: Biochemie III, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

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    Irina L. Bagyan, Ekaterina V. Revenkova, Galina E. Pozmogova, Alexander S. Kraev & Konstantin G. Skryabin

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Bagyan, I.L., Revenkova, E.V., Pozmogova, G.E. et al. 5′-Regulatory region of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA gene 6b directs organ-specific, wound-inducible and auxin-inducible expression in transgenic tobacco. Plant Mol Biol 29, 1299–1304 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00020470

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