Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Escherichia coli gus operon: introduction and expression of the gus operon in E. coli and the occurrence and use of GUS in other bacteria / Kate J. Wilson, Stephen G. Hughes, and Richard A. Jefferson -- The GUS reporter system as a tool to study plant gene expression / Thomas Martin ... {et al.} -- Quantitation of GUS activity by fluorometry / Sean R. Gallagher -- Histochemical, spectrophotometric, and fluorometric GUS substrates / John J. Naleway -- Automated preparation of plant samples for enzymatic analysis / Thomas B. Brumback, Jr. -- Microtiter plate-based assay for b-d-glucuronidase: a quantitative approach / A. Gururaj Rao and Pamela Flynn -- Histochemical localization of b-glucuronidase / Anne-Marie Stomp -- The GUS reporter gene: application to light and transmission electron microscopy / Stuart Craig -- Review of the use of the GUS gene for analysis of secretory systems / Leigh B. Farrell and Roger N. Beachy -- Applications of GUS to molecular plant virology / Jane K. Osbourn and T. Michael A. Wilson. (cont) Sensitive assay for the excision of transposable elements using b-glucuronidase reporter gene / E. Jean Finnegan -- Anthocyanin genes as visual markers in transformed maize tissues / Ben Bowen -- GUS as a useful reporter gene in animal cells / Daniel R. Gallie, John N. Feder, and Virginia Walbot -- b-glucuronidase (GUS) assay in animal tissue / John W. Kyle ... {et al.}.