The wheat transcriptional activator SPA: A seed-specific bZIP protein that recognizes the GCN4-like motif in the bifactorial endosperm box of prolamin genes

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-184

  Albani, Diego ^a   Hammond Kosack, Michael C U ^a   Smith, Caroline ^a   Conlan, Steven ^a   Colot, Vincent ^a,b   Holdsworth, Michael ^a,c   Bevan, Michael W ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c Institute of Arable Crop Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031080229     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.2.171     Document Type: Article

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