Shedding light on the role of AT-hook/PPC domain protein in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 200-201

  Ng, Kian Hong ^a   Ito, Toshiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; AT hook; Fine tuning; GIK; Nuclear organization; PPC domain

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77956620942     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.2.11111     Document Type: Article

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