Characterization of an ethylene-inducible, calcium-dependent nuclease that is differentially expressed in cucumber flower development

New Phytologist

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 590-600

  Gu, Hai Tao ^a,b   Wang, Dong Hui ^a,b   Li, Xia ^a   He, Chao Xing ^c   Xu, Zhi Hong ^a,b   Bai, Shu Nong ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The National Center of Plant Gene Research (Beijing)   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

CsCaN; Cucumber (Cucumis sativus); DNA damage; Ethylene induction; Unisexual flowers

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; ISOENZYME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CALCIUM; CLIMBING PLANT; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHYLENE; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION; POLLINATION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CUCUMBER; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

CALCIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ETHYLENES; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 80054842483     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03825.x     Document Type: Article

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