FUSCA3 encodes a protein with a conserved VP1/AB13-like B3 domain which is of functional importance for the regulation of seed maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 755-764

  Luerßen, Hartmut ^a,b   Kirik, Viktor ^a   Herrmann, Petra ^a,c   Miséra, Simon ^a,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCING; MATURATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; SEED DEVELOPMENT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTRONS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032167979     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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