Arabidopsis ethylene-responsive element binding factors act as transcriptional activators or repressors of GCC box-mediated gene expression

Plant Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 393-404

  Fujimoto, Susan Y ^a   Ohta, Masaru ^a   Usui, Akemi ^a   Shinshi, Hideaki ^a   Ohme Takagi, Masaru ^a  

^a NATL INST BIOSCI HUM TECHNOL   (Japan)

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ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034031131     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.12.3.393     Document Type: Article

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