Constitutive expression exposes functional redundancy between the Arabidopsis histone H2A gene HTA1 and other H2A gene family members

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1575-1589

  Yi, HoChul ^a,b   Sardesai, Nagesh ^a   Fujinuma, Toshinori ^a,c   Chan, Chien Wei ^a,d   Veena, ^a,e   Gelvin, Stanton B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vector Research   (United States)

^c DNA CHIP RESEARCH INC   (Japan)

^d Wurih Township   (Taiwan)

^e DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

FUNCTIONAL REDUNDANCY; GENE FAMILY; MATURE PLANTS; MUTANT PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACTERIA; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENS; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 33745793384     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.039719     Document Type: Article

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