A xenobiotic-stress-activated transcription factor and its cognate target genes are preferentially expressed in root tip meristems

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 679-688

  Klinedinst, Susan ^a,b   Pascuzzi, Pete ^a,b   Redman, Julia ^a,b   Desai, Mihir ^a,b   Arias, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

as 1; Auxin; Glutathione S transferase; PG13; Root meristem; TGA1a; Xenobiotic stress

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ISOENZYME; ROOT MERISTEM; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSGENE;

BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MERISTEM; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 0034051186     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006332708388     Document Type: Article

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