AREB1, AREB2, and ABF3 are master transcription factors that cooperatively regulate ABRE-dependent ABA signaling involved in drought stress tolerance and require ABA for full activation

Plant Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 672-685

  Yoshida, Takuya ^b   Fujita, Yasunari ^b   Sayama, Hiroko ^a   Kidokoro, Satoshi ^b   Maruyama, Kyonoshin ^b   Mizoi, Junya ^b   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^c   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; AREB ABF; BZIP protein; Drought stress; Phosphorylation; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ABF3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; AREB1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PLANT RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SNRK2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; DROUGHT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DROUGHTS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 76449117506     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.04092.x     Document Type: Article

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