Enhanced ethylene responsiveness in the Arabidopsis eer1 mutant results from a loss-of-function mutation in the protein phosphatase 2A A regulatory subunit, RCN1

Plant Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 709-718

  Larsen, Paul Brian ^a   Cancel, Jesse Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; CTR1; Ethylene; MAPKKK; PP2A; RCN1

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLONING; ETHYLENE; PROTEINS; SUBSTRATES;

MOLECULAR CLONING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038806442     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01762.x     Document Type: Article

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