The peach (Prunus persica L. Batsch) genome harbours 10 KNOX genes, which are differentially expressed in stem development, and the class 1 KNOPE1 regulates elongation and lignification during primary growth

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5417-5435

  Testone, Giulio ^a   Condello, Emiliano ^b   Verde, Ignazio ^b   Nicolodi, Chiara ^a   Caboni, Emilia ^b   Dettori, Maria Teresa ^b   Vendramin, Elisa ^b   Bruno, Leonardo ^c   Bitonti, Maria Beatrice ^c   Mele, Giovanni ^a   Giannino, Donato ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Agriculture Research Council (CRA)   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

KNOPE1; KNOX transcription factors; peach; stem elongation and lignification

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIGNIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; PLANT STEM; PRUNUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; PRUNUS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 84866672753     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers194     Document Type: Article

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