Wall-modifying genes regulated by the Arabidopsis homolog of trithorax, ATX1: Repression of the XTH33 gene as a test case

Plant Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 541-553

  Ndamukong, Ivan ^a   Chetram, Anand ^a   Saleh, Abdelaty ^a,b   Avramova, Zoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATX1; Cell wall activities; Epigenetic regulation; XTH33; Xyloglucan endotransglycolysation endohydrolysis

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATX1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, PLANT; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 66149184101     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.03798.x     Document Type: Article

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