Structure and functional analysis of wheat ICE (inducer of CBF expression) genes

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1237-1249

  Badawi, Mohamed ^a   Reddy, Yedulla Venkat ^a   Agharbaoui, Zahra ^a   Tominaga, Yoko ^a   Danyluk, Jean ^a   Sarhan, Fathey ^a   Houde, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; DNA binding; Freezing tolerance; Promoter; Transactivation; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; FREEZING; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; FREEZING; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRITICUM;

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 49449105100     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn100     Document Type: Article

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