Gene regulation by cytokinin in Arabidopsis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2012, Pages

  Brenner, Wolfram G ^a   Ramireddy, Eswar ^a   Heyl, Alexander ^a   Schmülling, Thomas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cis element; Cytokinin; Gene regulation; Meta analysis; Regulatory network; Signal transduction; Transcription factor; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870782793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00008     Document Type: Review

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