Expansins in the bryophyte Physcomitrella patens

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 789-802

  Schipper, Ori ^a   Schaefer, Didier ^b   Reski, Ralf ^c   Fleming, Andrew ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Auxin; Expansin; Gene targeting; Physcomitrella patens

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; STRESSES;

GENE ENCODING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ABSCISIC ACID; ADENINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRYOPSIDA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; KINETIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0036837562     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019907207433     Document Type: Article

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