A tomato homeobox gene (HD-Zip) is involved in limiting the spread of programmed cell death

Plant Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 591-600

  Mayda, Esther ^a   Tornero, Pablo ^a,b   Conejero, Vicente ^a   Vera, Pablo ^a  

^a Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ETHYLENE; GENE ACTIVATION; HOMEOBOX; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PHENOTYPE; SALICYLIC ACID; TOMATO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ANTISENSE; ETHYLENES; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0033375355     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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