Conserved MYC transcription factors play a key role in jasmonate signaling both in tomato and Arabidopsis

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1577-1591

  Boter, Marta ^a   Ruíz Rivero, Omar ^a   Abdeen, Ashraf ^a   Prat, Salomé ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Herbivore attack; JA cross talk; LAP; Pin2; Wounding

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; JASMONIC ACID; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN JAMYC10; PROTEIN JAMYC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ATMYC2 GENE; ATVSP GENE; B CHI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; JR1 GENE; LAP GENE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE MYC; PDF1.2 GENE; PIN2 GENE; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GENETICS; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOMATO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-BETA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYCLOPENTANES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 3042741883     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.297704     Document Type: Article

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