Heat shock factors HsfB1 and HsfB2b are involved in the regulation of Pdf1.2 expression and pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 152-165

  Kumar, Mukesh ^a   Busch, Wolfgang ^b   Birke, Hannah ^c   Kemmerling, Birgit ^c   Nürnberger, Thorsten ^c   Schöffl, Friedrich ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abiotic environmental stress; Arabidopsis; Defense responses; Disease resistance; Transcriptional control and transcription factors; Transcriptome analysis

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ARABIDOPSIS; FUNGI;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DEFENSIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PDF1.2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEFENSINS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, PLANT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 73449099342     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssn095     Document Type: Article

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