Identification and in silico characterization of soybean trihelix-GT and bHLH transcription factors involved in stress responses

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 233-246

  Osorio, Marina Borges ^a   Bücker Neto, Lauro ^a   Castilhos, Graciela ^a   Turchetto Zolet, Andreia Carina ^a   Wiebke Strohm, Beatriz ^a   Bodanese Zanettini, Maria Helena ^a   Margis Pinheiro, Márcia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drought; Gene expression; Glycine max; Phylogeny; Plant microbe interactions

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRIHELIX GT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TRIHELIX GT TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX GENE; BIOTIC STRESS; CLADISTICS; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT STRESS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOYBEAN; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRIHELIX GT GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84863002907     PISSN: 14154757     EISSN: 16784685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572012000200005     Document Type: Article

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