Plant expansins are a complex multigene family with an ancient evolutionary origin

Plant Physiology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 854-864

  Li, Yi ^a   Darley, Catherine P ^a   Ongaro, Verónica ^a   Fleming, Andrew ^a   Schipper, Ori ^a   Baldauf, Sandra L ^a   McQueen Mason, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELLS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

COLONIZATION; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; BRYOPHYTA; DICTYOSTELIUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA; MARSILEA; MARSILEA QUADRIFOLIA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; PINUS RADIATA; PINUS TAEDA; REGNELLIDIUM DIPHYLLUM;

EXPANSIN PROTEIN, PLANT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRYOPSIDA; CELL WALL; CLASSIFICATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; FERN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PINE; PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BRYOPSIDA; CELL WALL; DICTYOSTELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERNS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PINUS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0036006037     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.010658     Document Type: Article

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