Repressor- and activator-type ethylene response factors functioning in jasmonate signaling and disease resistance identified via a genome-wide screen of Arabidopsis transcription factor gene expression

Plant Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 949-959

  McGrath, Ken C ^a,b   Dombrecht, Bruno ^b   Manners, John M ^a,b   Schenk, Peer M ^a   Edgar, Cameron I ^b   Maclean, Donald J ^a   Scheible, Wolf Rüdiger ^c   Udvardi, Michael K ^c   Kazan, Kemal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ETHYLENE; FUNGI; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTORS; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DISEASES; ETHYLENE; FUNGI; PATHOGENS; PLANTS;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CYCLOPENTANES; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33644655130     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.068544     Document Type: Article

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