An NAC transcription factor orchestrates multiple features of cell wall development in Medicago truncatula

Plant Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-114

  Zhao, Qiao ^a   Gallego Giraldo, Lina ^a   Wang, Huanzhong ^a   Zeng, Yining ^b,c   Ding, Shi You ^b,c   Chen, Fang ^a,c   Dixon, Richard A ^a,c  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BioEnergy Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

anther dehiscence; bioenergy; cell wall development; lignification; NAC transcription factor; stomatal guard cell

Indexed keywords

APICAL MERISTEMS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BIOENERGY; BIOSYNTHETIC GENE; CELL WALLS; CONTROL-CELL; IN-CELL; INSERTION MUTANTS; LIGNIN CONTENTS; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MULTIPLE FEATURES; PCR ANALYSIS; PRE-TREATMENT; RETROTRANSPOSON; SECONDARY CELL WALL; SECONDARY WALL THICKENING; STOMATAL GUARD CELLS; WILD TYPES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLULOSE; CYTOLOGY; GENE ENCODING; LIGNIN; PHENOLS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUGAR (SUCROSE); TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

STEM CELLS;

LIGNIN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; RETROPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT STOMA; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGNIN; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOLS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STOMATA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLS; CELLULOSE; LIGNIFICATION; LIGNINS; PHENOLS; PLANTS; SUGAR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 77954291233     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04223.x     Document Type: Article

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