Phytochrome photosensory signalling networks

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-93

  Quail, Peter H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

GENE; LIGHT; NUCLEAR GENE; PHOTON; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYTOCHROME; PLANTS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036484368     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm728     Document Type: Review

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