Sensing the environment: Key roles of membrane-localized kinases in plant perception and response to abiotic stress

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 445-458

  Osakabe, Yuriko ^a   Yamaguchi Shinozaki, Kazuko ^b,c   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^a   Tran, Lam Son Phan ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; histidine kinase; hormone signalling; phosphorylation; receptor like kinase; signal transduction; stress signalling

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL MEMBRANE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; OSMOSIS; PROTEIN KINASES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84872317658     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers354     Document Type: Review

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