Direct repression of KNOX loci by the ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 complex of Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-58

  Guo, Mengjuan ^a   Thomas, Julie ^a,c   Collins, Galen ^a,b   Timmermans, Marja C P ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b WATSON SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; KNAT2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; KNOX1 PROTEIN, PLANT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIMERIZATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; GENE SILENCING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 43549114120     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.056127     Document Type: Article

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