Gene regulation during late embryogenesis: The RY motif of maturation-specific gene promoters is a direct target of the FUS3 gene product

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 401-408

  Reidt, Wim ^a   Wohlfarth, Thomas ^a   Ellerström, Mats ^b,d   Czihal, Andreas ^a   Tewes, Annegret ^a   Ezcurra, Ines ^b   Rask, Lars ^c   Bäumlein, Helmut ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; MUTANT; PLANT EMBRYOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGION; SEED DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLISTICS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, PLANT; FABACEAE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034070573     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00686.x     Document Type: Article

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