WUSCHEL controls meristem function by direct regulation of cytokinin-inducible response regulators

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7071, 2005, Pages 1172-1175

  Leibfried, Andrea ^a   To, Jennifer P C ^b   Busch, Wolfgang ^a   Stehling, Sandra ^a   Kehle, Andreas ^a   Demar, Monika ^a   Kieber, Joseph J ^b   Lohmann, Jan U ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HORMONES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY);

LIGAND-RECEPTOR SYSTEM; RESPONSE REGULATORS; SHOOT SYSTEMS; STEM CELLS;

PROTEINS;

CYTOKININ; CYTOKININ INDUCIBLE RESPONSE REGULATOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN WUSCHEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHESIS; MAIZE; MERISTEM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 29244489097     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04270     Document Type: Article

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