Structural and functional analysis of VQ motif-containing proteins in Arabidopsis as interacting proteins of WRKY transcription factors

Plant Physiology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 810-825

  Cheng, Yuan ^a,b   Zhou, Yuan ^a   Yang, Yan ^a   Chi, Ying Jun ^a   Zhou, Jie ^b   Chen, Jian Ye ^b,c   Wang, Fei ^b   Fan, Baofang ^b   Shi, Kai ^a   Zhou, Yan Hong ^a   Yu, Jing Quan ^a   Chen, Zhixiang ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84861844847     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.196816     Document Type: Article

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