Walls around tumours -why plants do not develop cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 794-802

  Doonan, John H ^a   Sablowski, Robert ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; BRASSINOSTEROID; CHLOROPLAST DNA; CYCLIN B1; CYCLIN D; CYTOKININ; DECAPENTAPLEGIC PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GIBBERELLIN; HELICASE; PHYTOHORMONE; PLANT DNA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F; WNT PROTEIN;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL WALL; CROWN GALL; DNA REPLICATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GEMINIVIRUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO ONCOGENE; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; ROL GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; TUMOR CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PLANT DISEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 77958503267     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2942     Document Type: Review

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