Genome-wide analysis of WRKY gene family in Cucumis sativus

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ling, Jian ^a   Jiang, Weijie ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Yu, Hongjun ^a   Mao, Zhenchuan ^a   Gu, Xingfang ^a   Huang, Sanwen ^a   Xie, Bingyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WRKY PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER; DROUGHT STRESS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRESS; SALT STRESS; WRKY GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 80053379462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-471     Document Type: Article

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