Promoters and transcription factors in abiotic stress-responsive gene expression

Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants: Physiological, Molecular and Genomic Foundation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-216

  Nakashima, Kazuo ^a   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^a,b  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

abiotic stress; abscisic acid; AREB; DREB CBF; promoters; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960206959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3112-9_10     Document Type: Chapter

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