OsLEA1a, a new Em-like protein of cereal plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2132-2144

  Shih, Ming Der ^a   Huang, Lin Tzu ^a   Wei, Fu Jin ^a   Wu, Ming Tsung ^a   Hoekstra, Folkert A ^b   Hsing, Yue Ie C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cd; Em like; Evolution; FTIR; LEA protein; Rice

Indexed keywords

BIOGLASS; LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN, PLANT; PHOSPHOLIPID; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRACHYPODIUM; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLANT GENE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RICE; SORGHUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BRACHYPODIUM; CERAMICS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; ORYZA SATIVA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SORGHUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICOTYLEDONEAE; ORYZA SATIVA; POACEAE;

EID: 78651289072     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq172     Document Type: Article

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