A Kruppel-like zinc finger protein is involved in nitrogen-fixing root nodule organogenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 475-482

  Frugier, Florian ^a   Poirier, Simone ^a   Satiat Jeunemaître, Béatrice ^a   Kondorosi, Adam ^a   Crespi, Martin ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Nitrogen fixation; TFIIIA

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MSZPT2 1 PROTEIN, MEDICAGO SATIVA; MSZPT2-1 PROTEIN, MEDICAGO SATIVA; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0033621819     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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