GmEREBP1 is a transcription factor activating defense genes in soybean and Arabidopsis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-119

  Mazarei, Mitra ^a   Elling, Axel A ^a   Maier, Tom R ^a   Puthoff, David P ^a,b   Baum, Thomas J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

cis elements; Ethylene insensitive soybean mutant etr1 1; GFP; GUS; Protoplasts; Quantitative real time reverse transcription PCR

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ETHYLENE-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; JASMONIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOYBEAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CYCLOPENTANES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; NEMATODA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALICYLIC ACID; SOYBEANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; GLYCINE MAX; HETERODERA GLYCINES; NEMATODA;

EID: 33846463774     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-2-0107     Document Type: Article

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