c-MYB oncogene-like genes encoding three MYB repeats occur in all major plant lineages

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-235

  Kranz, Harald ^a,b   Scholz, Kai ^a   Weisshaar, Bernd ^a  

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

^b Axaron Bioscience AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; ONCOGENE; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRYOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; FILICOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033998082     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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