Interactions of two abscisic-acid induced WRKY genes in repressing gibberellin signaling in aleurone cells

Plant Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-242

  Xie, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Zhong Lin ^a,c   Zou, Xiaolu ^a   Yang, Guangxiao ^b   Komatsu, Setsuko ^b   Shen, Qingxi J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; Gibberellin; Rice; Signaling; Transcriptional repressor; WRKY

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DNA; GENES; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PROTEINS; SIGNALING;

ABA SIGNALING; BIMOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE COMPLEMENTATION (BIFC); BINDING ACTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

2S ALBUMIN PROTEIN, PLANT; ABSCISIC ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GIBBERELLIN; PLANT ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ABSCISIC ACID; ANTIGENS, PLANT; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GIBBERELLINS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ABSCISIC ACID; AMINO ACIDS; CELLS; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; RICE;

EID: 33646830944     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2006.02694.x     Document Type: Article

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