Arabidopsis transient expression analysis reveals that activation of GLABRA2 may require concurrent binding of GLABRA1 and GLABRA3 to the promoter of GLABRA2

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1792-1804

  Wang, Shucai ^a   Chen, Jin Gui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

GL1; GL2; GL3; Transcription factor; Trichome; TTG1

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GL1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; GL2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; GL3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; TTG1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 57749183173     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn159     Document Type: Article

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