Signaling Mechanisms of Higher Plant Photoreceptors: A Structure-Function Perspective

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2005, Pages 227-261

  Wang, Haiyang ^a  

^a Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; FLAVOPROTEIN; PHYTOCHROME;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; FLAVOPROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYTOCHROME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 25144446374     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(05)68008-8     Document Type: Review

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