Plant promoter

Antigens Type of antibodies Indications Transformed plant Promoter Targeting signal Expression Refer- ences... 

That certain secondary metabolites from plants promote biodiversity has received experimental support. Thus, com, Zea mays, responds to the release of an amino acid ester, volicitin (Table 12.1), by a caterpillar, Spodoptera exigua, with the emission, at the foraging period of the day, of volatile mixtures of indole, monoterpenoids, and sesquiterpenoids. These attract a caterpillar predator, the female parasitic wasp, Cotesia marginiventris (Albom 1997). 

Weisshaar, B. et al.. Light-inducible and constitutively expressed DNA-binding proteins recognising a plant promoter element with functional relevance in light responsiveness. EMBO J., 10, Mil, 1991. 

G-box-like elements are also found in other plant promoters, including the cab-E promoter of N. plumbaginifolia (Castresana et al., 1988 Schindler Cashmore, 1990) where a mutation of this sequence results in substantial loss of expression (P. Bringmann and A.R. Cashmore, unpublished data). Similarly, G-box-like sequences are present in chalcone synthase promoters (Schulze-Lefert et al., 1989 Staiger et al.,... 

A compound generated in the smoke from burning plants. Promotes seed germination in plants that require fire to reproduce. 

As a continuation of a very early initiative of Sodean, Sol-Gas project in 1996, Inabensa (Abengoa company for solar electricity in 1999), had been later involved in Colon Solar project, an ISCC tower plant promoted by Sevillana (local utility) in 1997, and had acquired some know-how on heliostats manufacture... 

Terrestrial and aquatic vascular plants promote the biological reduction of nitro groups on TNT to amine groups, yielding 2-ADNT and 4-ADNT, similar to invertebrates and vertebrates [13]. In vascular plants, the putative reduction enzyme is a nitroreductase [44], During reductive TNT biotransformation, ADNT products are accumulated within the plant tissue or excreted to the surrounding culture medium. For Myriophyllum species, the excreted ADNT products accounted for less than 20% of the initial TNT, and only trace levels of free ADNT remained in the biomass [37,38,42], One study [40] also showed that M. aquaticum was capable of oxidative transformation of TNT via methyl oxidation or aromatic hydroxylation, with oxidation products accounting for nearly 36% of the TNT initially added. 

Gatz, C. and P.H. Quail, TnlO-encoded tet repressor can regulate an operator-containing plant promoter. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,... 

Fig. 3. EMS mutagenesis and selection procedure for NtlOS promoter-up-regulation mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana [65], RB/LB, right/left T-DNA border repeat, t, transcription termination sequence. p35S, constitutive plant promoter.

Beside the functional analysis, specific selection techniques have been developed in yeast to identify transcription factors that bind to hormone responsive elements in plant promoters or interacting partners of known components in phytohormone signalling. These techniques are based on the fact that transcription factors consist of two separate domains, a DNA binding domain (DNA-BD) and a transcription activation domain (AD). 

PlantProm http //mendel.cs.rhul.ac.uk/ Plant promoter seq for RNA pol 11... 

The use of leaves from the plant Equisetum arvense as a template is another effective method to prepare hierarchical zeolites [170]. The presence of siHca in the plant promotes zeolite crystallization, leading to a microporous/mesoporous zeolite (roughly 0.79 cm g of intracrystalline mesoporosity). 

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