Beyond transcription: RNA-binding proteins as emerging regulators of plant response to environmental constraints

Plant Science

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-18

  Ambrosone, Alfredo ^a   Costa, Antonello ^a   Leone, Antonella ^b   Grillo, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

ABA; Environmental stress; Plant stress tolerance; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ABSCISIC ACID; ACCLIMATIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; PLANTS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 82155162650     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2011.02.004     Document Type: Review

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