Prospecting for Genes involved in transcriptional regulation of plant defenses, a bioinformatics approach

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  van Verk, Marcel C ^a   Bol, John F ^a   Linthorst, Huub J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Co expression analysis; Defense response; Ethylene induced; Jasmonic acid induced; Salicylic acid induced; Signal transduction; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; DEFENSIN; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; JASMONIC ACID; OXYLIPIN; SALICYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYCLOPENTANES; DATABASES, GENETIC; DEFENSINS; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; OXYLIPINS; SALICYLIC ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79956009955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-88     Document Type: Article

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