Arabidopsis cytokinin receptors mutants reveal functions in shoot growth, leaf senescence, seed size, germination, root development, and cytokinin metabolism

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-54

  Riefler, Michael ^a   Novak, Ondrej ^b   Strnad, Miroslav ^b   Schmülling, Thomas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ENZYMES; SEED; SIGNALING;

CYTOKININ CONTENT; CYTOKININ RECEPTORS; DARK-INDUCED CHLOROPHYLL LOSS;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CHLOROPHYLLS; ENZYMES; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CHLOROPHYLL; CYTOKININ; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; T DNA; T-DNA; WOL PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPHYLL; CYTOKININS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GERMINATION; LIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEEDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33645749116     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.037796     Document Type: Article

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