A nitrate-inducible GARP family gene encodes an auto-repressible transcriptional repressor in rice

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 506-517

  Sawaki, Naoya ^a,b   Tsujimoto, Ryoma ^b   Shigyo, Mikao ^b   Konishi, Mineko ^a,b   Toki, Seiichi ^c   Fujiwara, Toru ^b   Yanagisawa, Shuichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nitrate response; Rice; Transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RICE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; NITRATES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 84875974144     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct007     Document Type: Article

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