The WRKY superfamily of plant transcription factors

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 199-206

  Eulgem, Thomas ^a,b   Rushton, Paul J ^a   Robatzek, Silke ^a   Somssich, Imre E ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034192491     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(00)01600-9     Document Type: Review

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