Functional identification and characterization of the brassica napus transcription factor gene BnAP2, the ortholog of arabidopsis thaliana APETALA2

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Yan, Xiaohong ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Chen, Bo ^a   Xiong, Zhiyong ^c   Chen, Chunli ^d   Wang, Lijun ^a   Yu, Jingyin ^a   Lu, Changming ^a   Wei, Wenhui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISSION; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APETALA2 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BNAP2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE FERTILITY; FLOWER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT STRUCTURES; RAPESEED; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SEED SIZE; SENESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BRASSICA NAPUS; ETHYLENES; FERTILITY; FLOWERS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; YEASTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA NAPUS;

EID: 84858980809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033890     Document Type: Article

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