Clues about the ancestral roles of plant MADS-box genes from a functional analysis of moss homologues

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1155-1169

  Singer, S D ^a   Krogan, N T ^b   Ashton, N W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gene knock down; MADS box gene functions; Moss; Physcomitrella

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

GENE KNOCK-DOWN; MADS-BOX GENE FUNCTIONS; PHYSCOMITRELLA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

BRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 34547220416     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-007-0312-0     Document Type: Article

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