Functional domains of the floral regulator AGAMOUS: Characterization of the DNA binding domain and analysis of dominant negative mutations

Plant Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 831-845

  Mizukami, Yukiko ^a   Huang, Hai ^a   Tudor, Matthew ^a,b   Hu, Yi ^a   Ma, Hong ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DOMINANT GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030138748     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.8.5.831     Document Type: Article

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