The N-end rule pathway promotes seed germination and establishment through removal of ABA sensitivity in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4549-4554

  Holman, Tara J ^a,b   Jones, Peter D ^b   Russell, Laurel ^c   Medhurst, Anne ^b   Tomas, Susana Ubeda ^b   Talloji, Prabhavathi ^d,e   Marquez, Julietta ^b   Schmuths, Heike ^b,f   Tung, Swee Ang ^b,g   Taylor, Ian ^b   Footitt, Steven ^a,h   Bachmair, Andreas ^d,e   Theodoulou, Frederica L ^a   Holdsworth, Michael J ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f Saaten Union Resistenzlabor GmbH   (Germany)

^g South Asian Network for Social and Agricultural Development   (India)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abscisicacid; Aminoacyl trna protein transferase; Lipid bodies targeted protein degradation

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; ARGININE TRANSFER RNA; ARGINYLTRANSFERASE; SUCROSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENDOSPERM; EPISTASIS; FRUIT RIPENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; ROOT GROWTH; SEEDLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GERMINATION; MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; SEEDLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 63149132055     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810280106     Document Type: Article

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