Gene structures, classification and expression models of the AP2/EREBP transcription factor family in rice

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 344-360

  Sharoni, Akhter Most ^a   Nuruzzaman, Mohammed ^a   Satoh, Kouji ^a,b   Shimizu, Takumi ^b   Kondoh, Hiroaki ^a   Sasaya, Takahide ^b   Choi, Il Ryong ^c   Omura, Toshihiro ^b   Kikuchi, Shoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Biotic stress; Microarray; Phylogenetic analysis; Rice

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ETHYLENE-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT VIRUS; RICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIROLOGY;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INTRONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT VIRUSES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

RICE DWARF VIRUS; RICE STRIPE VIRUS; RICE TUNGRO SPHERICAL VIRUS; SUBGROUP B;

EID: 79951569343     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq196     Document Type: Article

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