Post-translational regulation of WRKY transcription factors in plant immunity

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-437

  Ishihama, Nobuaki ^a   Yoshioka, Hirofumi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT; PLANT IMMUNITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84864498774     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2012.02.003     Document Type: Review

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