WRKY54 and WRKY70 co-operate as negative regulators of leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2667-2679

  Besseau, Sébastien ^a,b   Li, Jing ^a   Palva, E Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; ROS; SA; senescence; WRKY transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; SALICYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WRKY54 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; WRKY70 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AGING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF;

AGING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT LEAVES; SALICYLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HYDRIDA;

EID: 84861017311     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err450     Document Type: Article

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