Vacuolar processing enzyme is up-regulated in the lytic vacuoles of vegetative tissues during senescence and under various stressed conditions

Plant Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-53

  Kinoshita, Tetsu ^a,c   Yamada, Kenji ^a,b   Hiraiwa, Nagako ^a   Kondo, Maki ^a   Nishimura, Mikio ^a,b   Hara Nishimura, Ikuko ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL VACUOLE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ETHYLENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC STRAIN; JASMONIC ACID; LYSIS; MATURATION; MESSENGER RNA; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; SALICYLIC ACID; SENESCENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WOUND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOPENTANES; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SALICYLIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UP-REGULATION; VACUOLES;

EID: 0033166888     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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