The mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade MKK3-MPK6 is an important part of the jasmonate signal transduction pathway in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 805-818

  Takahashi, Fuminori ^a,b,c   Yoshida, Riichiro ^b,c   Ichimura, Kazuya ^c,d   Mizoguchi, Tsuyoshi ^b,c   Seo, Shigemi ^e   Yonezawa, Masahiro ^c   Maruyama, Kyonoshin ^f   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^f,g   Shinozakia, Kazuo ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOGENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENETIC ANALYSES; MUTATIONS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY; GENES; PATHOGENS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34250767834     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.046581     Document Type: Article

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