Analysis of cytokinin mutants and regulation of cytokinin metabolic genes reveals important regulatory roles of cytokinins in drought, salt and abscisic acid responses, and abscisic acid biosynthesis

Plant Cell

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2169-2183

  Nishiyama, Rie ^a   Watanabe, Yasuko ^a   Fujita, Yasunari ^b   Le, Dung Tien ^a   Kojima, Mikiko ^a   Werner, Tomás ^c   Vankova, Radomira ^d   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^b   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^a   Kakimoto, Tatsuo ^e   Sakakibara, Hitoshi ^a   Schmülling, Thomas ^c   Tran, Lam Son Phan ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

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

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 79960876096     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.111.087395     Document Type: Article

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