Towards functional characterisation of the members of the R2R3-MYB gene family from Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 263-276

  Kranz, Harald D ^a   Denekamp, Marten ^b   Greco, Raffaella ^c   Jin, Hailing ^d   Leyva, Antonio ^e   Meissner, Ruth C ^d   Petroni, Katia ^c   Urzainqui, Ana ^e   Bevan, Michael ^d   Martin, Cathie ^d   Smeekens, Sjef ^b   Tonelli, Chiara ^c   Paz Ares, Javier ^e   Weisshaar, Bernd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING; GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PROTO ONCOGENE; SECONDARY METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOME, PLANT; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032191287     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1998.00278.x     Document Type: Article

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