Role of PP2C-mediated ABA signaling in the moss Physcomitrella patens

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 887-889

  Sakata, Yoichi ^a   Komatsu, Kenji ^a   Taji, Teruaki ^a   Tanaka, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABA; ABI1; Physcomitrella patens; PP2C; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRYOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS;

EID: 70450175975     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.4.9.9464     Document Type: Article

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