Phytochrome signaling in green Arabidopsis seedlings: Impact assessment of a mutually negative phyB-PIF feedback loop

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 734-749

  Leivar, Pablo ^a,b,c   Monte, Elena ^c   Cohn, Megan M ^a,b   Quail, Peter H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PLANT GENE EXPRESSION CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

Author keywords

genetics; Light regulation; light signaling; molecular biology; photomorphogenesis; transcriptional control and transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84861361461     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss031     Document Type: Article

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