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Isolation of a strong Arabidopsis guard cell promoter and its potential as a research tool

Yingzhen Yang1 email, Alex Costa2 email, Nathalie Leonhardt3 email, Robert S Siegel1 email and Julian I Schroeder1 email

Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0116, USA

Department of Biology, University of Padua, Via U. Bassi 58/B, I-35131, Padova, Italy

CEA Cadarache, DSV, UMR 6191 CEA-CNRS, DEVM, LEMS and LEMP, St Paul les Durance Cedex, France

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Plant Methods 2008, 4:6doi:10.1186/1746-4811-4-6

Published: 19 February 2008

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Additional file 1:

Experiment I-Guard cells without ABA (JS33.xls). Actinomycin and Cordycepin were added during protoplast isolation.

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Experiment I-Guard cells treated with 100 μM ABA (JS34.xls). Actinomycin and Cordycepin were added during protoplast isolation.

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Experiment I-Mesophyll cells without ABA (JS35.xls). Actinomycin and Cordycepin were added during protoplast isolation.

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Experiment I-Mesophyll cells treated with 100 μM ABA (JS36.xls). Actinomycin and Cordycepin were added during protoplast isolation.

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Experiment II-Guard cells without ABA (JS85.xls).

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Experiment II-Guard cells treated with 100 μM ABA (JS86.xls)

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Experiment II-Mesophyll cells without ABA (JS87.xls).

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Experiment II-Mesophyll cells treated with 100 μM ABA (JS88.xls).

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Guard cell promoter candidate gene expression in GC and MC.

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Representative movie 1 of spontaneous calcium transients occurring in guard cells of intact pGC1::YC3.60 transgenic plants. The time compression factor is 30 times.

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Representative movie 2 of spontaneous calcium transients occurring in guard cells of intact pGC1::YC3.60 transgenic plants. The time compression factor is 30 times.

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Multiple (T/A)AAAG elements are present in all the examined promoters.

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