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SUBMITTER: Schena M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC52940 | biostudies-other | 1991 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19911201 23
Promoters that allow the selective induction of gene expression in vivo constitute an important methodology in eukaryotic organisms such as yeast and the fruit fly, but to date no such system has been described for higher plants. Given the fact that mammalian steroid receptors can function as hormone-dependent inducers of gene expression in heterologous systems, the feasibility of using mammalian steroid hormones as selective inducers of plant gene expression was investigated. Here it is shown t ...[more]