Identification of specific DNA binding residues in the TCP family of transcription factors in arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1174-1189

  Aggarwal, Pooja ^a,b   Gupta, Mainak Das ^a   Joseph, Agnel Praveen ^a   Chatterjee, Nirmalya ^a,c   Sinivasan, N ^a   Nath, Utpal ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 77953199469     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.066647     Document Type: Article

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