Comparative analysis of zinc finger proteins involved in plant disease resistance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Gupta, Santosh Kumar ^a,b   Rai, Amit Kumar ^a,b   Kanwar, Shamsher Singh ^b   Sharma, Tilak R ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b HIMACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PI21 PROTEIN; PI54 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSPOSES TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE LEUCINE RICE REPEAT DOMAIN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PI54 GENE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; R GENE; RICE BLAST; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACIDS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84865051024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042578     Document Type: Article

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