A role for SR proteins in plant stress responses

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Duque, Paula ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Arabidopsis; Gene expression; RNA binding proteins; SR proteins; Stress responses

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE ARGININE RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; SERINE-ARGININE-RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT; REVIEW;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79956213953     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.V.I.14063     Document Type: Review

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