The Arabidopsis plastid-signalling mutant gun1 (genomes uncoupled1) shows altered sensitivity to sucrose and abscisic acid and alterations in early seedling development

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3773-3786

  Cottage, Amanda ^a,b   Mott, Ellie K ^a,c   Kempster, Jennie A ^a,d   Gray, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid; anthocyanin; chloroplast; LHCB1; lincomycin; norflurazon; plastid signalling; retrograde signalling; sucrose; sugar signalling

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; ANTHOCYANIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUN1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; LINCOMYCIN; NORFLURAZON; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; PYRIDAZINE DERIVATIVE; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COTYLEDON; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLASTID; SEEDLING; DRUG EFFECTS;

ABSCISIC ACID; ANTHOCYANINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; COTYLEDON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LINCOMYCIN; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PYRIDAZINES; SEEDLING; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 77955912862     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq186     Document Type: Article

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