Arabidopsis decuple mutant reveals the importance of SnRK2 kinases in osmotic stress responses in vivo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1717-1722

  Fujii, Hiroaki ^a,b   Verslues, Paul E ^a,d   Zhu, Jian Kang ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Osmosensing; Phosphorylation; Signal transduction; Water deficit

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; INOSITOL; PROLINE; PROTEIN KINASE; SNF1 RELATED PROTEIN KINASE 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABSCISIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PROLINE; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79952146183     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018367108     Document Type: Article

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