The BME3 (Blue Micropylar End 3) GATA zinc finger transcription factor is a positive regulator of Arabidopsis seed germination

Plant Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 960-971

  Liu, Po Pu ^a   Koizuka, Nobuya ^a   Martin, Ruth C ^a,b   Nonogaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold stratification; Dormancy; Enhancer trap; GATA zinc finger protein; Gibberellic acid biosynthesis genes; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENZYME KINETICS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

Β-GLUCURONIDASE (GUS); BLUE MICROPYLAR END 3; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

SEED;

ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY; GENES; PLANTS; PROTEINS; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BME2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COLD; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33644874362     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2005.02588.x     Document Type: Article

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