Members of the LBD family of transcription factors repress anthocyanin synthesis and affect additional nitrogen responses in arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3567-3584

  Rubin, Grit ^a   Tohge, Takayuki ^a   Matsuda, Fumio ^b   Saito, Kazuki ^b   Scheible, Wolf Rüdiger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 73249138781     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.067041     Document Type: Article

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