A Mak-like kinase is a repressor of GAMYB in barley aleurone

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 707-717

  Woodger, Fiona J ^a,b   Gubler, Frank ^a   Pogson, Barry J ^b   Jacobsen, John V ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

amylase; Aleurone; GAMYB; Gibberellin; Mak; Signalling

Indexed keywords

GENES; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; YEAST;

HYDROLASE GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALPHA-AMYLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; GIBBERELLINS; HORDEUM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0037298311     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01663.x     Document Type: Article

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