AP2/ERF transcription factor in rice: Genome-wide anvas and yntenic relationships between monocots and udicots

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2012, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 321-355

  Rashid, Muhammad ^a   Guangyuan, He ^a   Guangxiao, Yang ^a   Hussain, Javeed ^a   Xu, Yan ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

AP2 ERF; Arabidopsis; CBF DREB; Phylogenetic analysis; RAV; Rice; Wheat

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BINDING PROTEIN; DEHYDRATION RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RAV PROTEIN; THREONINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AP2 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CLADISTICS; CROP IMPROVEMENT; DREB GENE; ERF GENE; EUDICOT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MONOCOT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT LEMMA; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANT STRESS; PLANT TISSUE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAV GENE; RICE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; WHEAT;

ARABIDOPSIS; LILIOPSIDA; ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84863616370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EBO.S9369     Document Type: Article

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