Regulatory Patterns of a Large Family of Defensin-Like Genes Expressed in Nodules of Medicago truncatula

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Nallu, Sumitha ^a,c   Silverstein, Kevin A T ^a   Samac, Deborah A ^b   Bucciarelli, Bruna ^b   Vance, Carroll P ^b   VandenBosch, Kathryn A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Plant Science Research Unit   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BARREL MEDIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIN LIKE GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NODULATION; NODULE CYSTEINE RICH GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; ROOT DEVELOPMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DEFENSINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 84875639791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060355     Document Type: Article

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