Cloning of a WD-repeat-containing gene from alfalfa (Medicago sativa): A role in hormone-mediated cell division?

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 771-780

  McKhann, Heather I ^a,c   Frugier, Florian ^a   Petrovics, György ^a,d   Coba De La Peña, Teodoro ^a,e   Jurkevitch, Edouard ^a,f   Brown, Spencer ^a   Kondorosi, Eva ^a   Kondorosi, Adam ^a,b   Crespi, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Cytokinin; G protein subunit; RACK1 subfamily; WD repeat proteins

Indexed keywords

CYTOKININ; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIVISION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKININS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ARCA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0031193616     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005899410389     Document Type: Article

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