Multiple exposures to drought 'train' transcriptional responses in Arabidopsis

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ding, Yong ^a   Fromm, Michael ^b   Avramova, Zoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATX1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HISTONE; PLANT RNA; RAB PROTEIN; RAB18 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; DROUGHT STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DROUGHTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HISTONES; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, PLANT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859207508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1732     Document Type: Article

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