Stress-responsive mitogen-activated protein kinases interact with the EAR motif of a poplar zinc finger protein and mediate its degradation through the 26s proteasome

Plant Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1379-1393

  Hamel, Louis Philippe ^a,b   Benchabane, Meriem ^a   Nicole, Marie Claude ^a,c   Major, Ian T ^a,d   Morency, Marie Josée ^a   Pelletier, Gervais ^a   Beaudoin, Nathalie ^c   Sheen, Jen ^b   Séguin, Armand ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 80455173542     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.178343     Document Type: Article

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