Light signal transduction in higher plants

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2004, Pages 87-117

  Chen, Meng ^a   Chory, Joanne ^a,b   Fankhauser, Christian ^c  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryptochrome; Photomorphogenesis; Phototropin; Phytochrome; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; PHOTOTROPIN; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN NPH3; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLAVOPROTEINS; ISOMERISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PHOTOTROPISM; PHYTOCHROME; PLANTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 10944267031     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.38.072902.092259     Document Type: Review

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