Expression profiles of the Arabidopsis WRKY gene superfamily during plant defense response

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-37

  Dong, Jixin ^a,b   Chen, Chunhong ^a   Chen, Zhixiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Plant defense responses; W boxes; WRKY proteins

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; MOLECULES; PROTEINS;

PLANT DEFENSE RESPONSE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOME, PLANT; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS; SALICYLIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 0037276041     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020780022549     Document Type: Article

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