Salicylic acid and NPR1 induce the recruitment of trans-activating TGA factors to a defense gene promoter in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1846-1858

  Johnson, Christopher ^a,b,c   Boden, Erin ^a   Arias, Jonathan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PATHOLOGY;

PATHOGENESIS;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0042421723     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.012211     Document Type: Article

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