HRS1 acts as a negative regulator of abscisic acid signaling to promote timely germination of Arabidopsis seeds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Chongming ^a,b   Feng, Juanjuan ^a,b   Wang, Ran ^a,b   Liu, Hong ^a,b   Yang, Huixia ^a,b   Rodriguez, Pedro L ^c   Qin, Huanju ^a   Liu, Xin ^a   Wang, Daowen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Universitat Politècnica de València   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; FUSICOCCIN; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HRS1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ELONGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO AXIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMINATION; HRS1 GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; SALT STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GERMINATION; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; SEEDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84860113102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035764     Document Type: Article

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