Genome-wide analysis of the GRAS gene family in rice and Arabidopsis

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 519-532

  Tian, Chaoguang ^a   Wan, Ping ^a   Sun, Shouhong ^a   Li, Jiayang ^a   Chen, Mingsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

comparative genomics; duplication; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; ROOT RADIAL PATTERNING;

GENES; PROTEINS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; TIME;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNTENY; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

GENES; GIBBERELLIC ACID; PLANTS; RICE; ROOTS; STEMS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 4444343960     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PLAN.0000038256.89809.57     Document Type: Review

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