Phosphorylation of Opaque2 changes diurnally and impacts its DNA binding activity

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-108

  Ciceri, Pietro ^a,c   Gianazza, Elisabetta ^b   Lazzari, Barbara ^a   Lippoli, Guido ^a   Genga, Annamaria ^a   Hoschek, Gisela ^c   Schmidt, Robert J ^c   Viotti, Angelo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030980195     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.1.97     Document Type: Article

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