SPATULA and ALCATRAZ, are partially redundant, functionally diverging bHLH genes required for Arabidopsis gynoecium and fruit development

Plant Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 816-829

  Groszmann, Michael ^a,b   Paicu, Teodora ^a   Alvarez, John P ^a   Swain, Steve M ^b   Smyth, David R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; bHLH; dehiscence; gynoecium; redundancy; silique

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BHLH; DEHISCENCE; GYNOECIUM; SILIQUE;

DEFECTS; FRUITS; HISTOLOGY; REDUNDANCY; TISSUE;

GENES;

ALCATRAZ PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SPT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; E BOX ELEMENT; FLOWER; FRUIT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; E-BOX ELEMENTS; FLOWERS; FRUIT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS GYNOECIUM;

EID: 82355169005     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04732.x     Document Type: Article

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