Light-regulated transcriptional networks in higher plants

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-230

  Jiao, Yuling ^a   Lau, On Sun ^a   Deng, Xing Wang ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIBBERELLIC ACID; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; PHYTOCHROME;

ARABIDOPSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HIGHER PLANT; LIFE CYCLE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR CLOCK; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGHT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 33847042609     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2049     Document Type: Review

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