MONOPTEROS controls embryonic root initiation by regulating a mobile transcription factor

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7290, 2010, Pages 913-916

  Schlereth, Alexandra ^a,d   Möller, Barbara ^b   Liu, Weilin ^b   Kientz, Marika ^a   Flipse, Jacky ^b   Rademacher, Eike H ^b   Schmid, Markus ^c   Jürgens, Gerd ^a   Weijers, Dolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TARGET OF MONOPTEROS 5 PROTEIN; TARGET OF MONOPTEROS 7 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MONOPTEROS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; CELL ORGANELLE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ROOT DEVELOPMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MERISTEM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT ROOTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 77950867049     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08836     Document Type: Article

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