Research Progress on Functional Analysis of Rice WRKY Genes

Rice Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-72

  SONG, Yu ^a,b   AI, Chong rui ^a   JING, Shao juan ^a,b   YU, Di qiu ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

gene function; rice; transcription factor; WRKY gene

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953272677     PISSN: 16726308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6308(08)60105-5     Document Type: Article

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