Phytochrome-mediated inhibition of shade avoidance involves degradation of growth-promoting bHLH transcription factors

Plant Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 312-323

  Lorrain, Séverine ^b   Allen, Trudie ^c   Duek, Paula D ^a,b   Whitelam, Garry C ^c   Fankhauser, Christian ^b  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bHLH transcription factors; Phytochrome interacting proteins (PIF); Phytochromes; Protein stability; Shade avoidance

Indexed keywords

BHLH TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING PROTEINS (PIF); PHYTOCHROMES; PROTEIN STABILITY; SHADE AVOIDANCE;

DEGRADATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHYB PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHYTOCHROME B; PIF4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PIF5 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PROTEASOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIGHT; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYTOCHROME B; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 37749031518     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03341.x     Document Type: Article

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