A drought-stress-inducible histone gene in Arabidopsis thaliana is a member of a distinct class of plant linker histone variants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 629-641

  Ascenzi, Robert ^a   Gantt, J Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Arabidopsis; Chromatin; Environmental stress; Gene family; Linker histone variants

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WATER;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; LYCOPERSICON PENNELLII;

EID: 0031194172     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005886011722     Document Type: Article

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