The quiescent/colorless alleles of viviparous1 show that the conserved B3 domain of VP1 is not essential for ABA-regulated gene expression in the seed

Plant Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1231-1240

  Carson, Christian B ^a   Hattori, Tsukaho ^b   Rosenkrans, Leonard ^c   Vasil, Vimla ^c   Vasil, Indra K ^c   Peterson, Peter A ^d   McCarty, Donald R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VP1 PROTEIN, PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INTRON; MAIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED;

ABSCISIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031436129     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1997.12061231.x     Document Type: Article

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