Two genes with similarity to bacterial response regulators are rapidly and specifically induced by cytokinin in arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1009-1019

  Brandstatter, Ingrid ^a   Kieber, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKININ; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTIDINE KINASE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032100921     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.10.6.1009     Document Type: Article

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