Functional analysis and binding affinity of tomato ethylene response factors provide insight on the molecular bases of plant differential responses to ethylene

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pirrello, Julien ^a,b   Prasad, B C Narasimha ^a,b   Zhang, Wangshu ^a,b,c   Chen, Kunsong ^c   Mila, Isabelle ^a,b   Zouine, Mohamed ^a,b   Latché, Alain ^a,b   Pech, Jean Claude ^a,b   Ohme Takagi, Masaru ^d   Regad, Farid ^a,b   Bouzayen, Mondher ^a,b  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

cis regulatory elements; ERF; Ethylene; Tomato; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SOLANUM;

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TOMATO;

ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84867236796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-190     Document Type: Article

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